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This is great news, but simultaneously disappointing that it is necessary. FFmpeg underpins tens of billions of dollars in value for the companies that use it, yet the support from the community is proportionally minuscule.

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It's necessary because anytime there's talk about the original authors of open source software making money rather than big corps everyone starts frothing at the mouth and forking things to protect the leeches.

It's weird when you consider how much money corporations waste on complete bs that they can't set aside a tiny amount to support the software they use.

So weird, it sounds like a conspiracy theory.

What's the conspiracy? Why would a company support a Free software project if it didn't have to, out of the good of its heart?

For the same reason that they hire cleaners to clean the windows of their buildings and pay people to check cables in their data centers. To make sure that their business isn't going to fall apart.

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