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
11 months ago
This! Why is this posted now? Ridiculous.
Because the developers tweeted about it today
I don’t think people understood your joke. This thread is all about MS not reading docs or the comment by the guy helping them. Then you ask a date question like you didn’t even see the date on the tweet. Classic! Well done, but subtle.
The tweet is from today. The ffmpeg team felt like it needed to be said.
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
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.
I didn’t know that site worked for Twitter. I’ve just been using Nitter.
The Elon Musk of Twitter or the Elon Musk in the FFMPEG ticket?
Maybe Microsoft responded just now to their inquiry