The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers.
@Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is "high priority"
After politely requesting a support contract from Microsoft for long term maintenance, they offered a one-time payment of a few thousand dollars instead.
Hi @elonmusk, we hear you want hardcore video engineering at Twitter 2.0. At FFmpeg we've been doing hardcore video programming for decades (high performance hand written assembly etc.) Get in touch if you want to talk!
@elonmusk Errr...this tweet blew up (thanks @ID_AA_Carmack!).
FFmpeg and affiliated projects like @videolan are open source projects with many technical challenges at the cutting edge of video.
To anyone interested, check out the code: source.ffmpeg.org (in C of course)
