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FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs (thenewstack.io)
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This reminds me of that time there was a critical vulnerability in some core open source library that basically everyone depends on, and there was no one around to fix it or something. I want to say it was 2015? I can’t remember the name of the software package.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    OpenSSL heart bleed, for sure

    Great example of corporations just taking from open source and not giving back a dime because fuck you, give us your work!

    I'd love to see a GPL version where if you're a company, and you make more than x amount of profit with open source projects, that you gotta fund it with y amount, depending on your profit or something

    ALL big tech companies have gotten ginormous thanks to open source software, and though some have given back something, and some have done some funding, it's always been such few pennies on so many dollars that it might as well have been slavery. Add to that that many times what was given back was only given back because it was a good thing, strategically, for them.

    Tech companies are abusive as fuck which made them so insanely big, powerful and rich and this nonsense has to stop

    Open source is awesome and ALL software should be open source as far as I'm concerned, but the abuse from tech corporations has to stop

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