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70% of the world's internet btw, but out-of-support deployments and little funding for permanent staff to manage the open-source project.

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[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 days ago

Reminds me of an old coworker who couldn't understand why an open source project wouldn't care about his request when we had support contract with the company that consumed the project.

we pay for support why won't they code in my request

(note request was then wanting to do something that was supported already but not in the way they wanted it implemented)

Or honestly better comparison is Microsoft and ffmpeg

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"

https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1775178803129602500