alt Hacker NewsI can't help but be reminded about the time that an MS employee put in a ticket on FFmpeg's bug tracker and said it was 'High priority'.[1][2]
On the one hand, this one Microsoft employee was probably in a bind and actually blocked by this bug. On some level, it's hard to blame them as an individual.
On the other hand, Microsoft has no leverage here and pays somewhere between a pittance and nothing for FFmpeg, while getting enormous use out of it. If they regularly donated with either money or patches, then there'd be no beef, but it's the expectation of getting something more for free while already getting so damn much for for zero cents that really grinds both mine and FFmpeg's gears.
That reminds me that I should probably throw some money at FFmpeg, if only to clear my conscience.