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ndiddylast Sunday at 2:22 PM1 replyview on HN

My point of view is that the unpaid ffmpeg maintainers should stop playing along with the corporate "security researchers" and not prioritize a bug over everything else simply because it's a CVE. In this case, the "high priority CVE" is from a reverse-engineered codec a hobbyist wrote to decode video from 1990s LucasArts video games. I think it's unreasonable to expect the maintainers to drop everything to fix a bug in a codec that most people will never use. If the trillion-dollar companies sending AI-generated CVE reports care so strongly about getting them fixed ASAP, they should really be fixing them themselves.


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estimator7292last Sunday at 2:53 PM

You're completely missing the point.

The problem isn't that volunteer devs are harassed into work.

The problem is being harassed.

Whether or not you "care" or feel the need to do any work or accept responsibility, constant harassment will destroy anyone, even you.

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