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

  • Lexi SneptaurEnglish
    221·
    7 months ago

    Thanks for additional context. I don’t open Twitter links anymore because 3/4 of the time the link doesn’t work after Musk made changes

    • Aatube
      121·
      7 months ago

      The Elon Musk of Twitter or the Elon Musk in the FFMPEG ticket?

    • ReversalHatcheryEnglish
      10·
      7 months ago

      You can try to read through https://archive.today . It’s a site archiving site, it has a couple of tricks to evade such restrictions. Not the most private one… but better than visiting twitter directly.

      • Lexi SneptaurEnglish
        20·
        7 months ago

        I didn’t know that site worked for Twitter. I’ve just been using Nitter.