Microsoft employee:

Hi, This is a high priority ticket and the FFmpeg version is currently used in a highly visible product in Microsoft. We have customers experience issues with Caption during Teams Live Event. Please help

Maintainer’s comment on twitter:

After politely requesting a support contract from Microsoft for long term maintenance, they offered a one-time payment of a few thousand dollars instead.

This is unacceptable.

And further:

The lesson from the xz fiasco is that investments in maintenance and sustainability are unsexy and probably won’t get a middle manager their promotion but pay off a thousandfold over many years.

But try selling that to a bean counter

    • @sep
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      38 months ago

      Wtf is a real elon musk? He is not elon musk of tesla. But is not uncommon for multiple people to have the same name.

      Poor man it must be annoying to have to introduce yourself as “elon musk, no not that elon musk” all the time?