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arrowleaf
2 days ago
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FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs
If they can fund a fork, they can continue business as usual until the need arises
zrm
2 days ago
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A fork is more expensive to maintain than funding/contributing to the original project. You have to duplicate all future work yourselves, third party code starts expecting their version instead of your version, etc.
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rs186
1 day ago
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Nobody said the fork cannot diverge from the original project.
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