Once again, attention is being drawn to the underfunding of open-source projects, especially small software libraries. They’re hard to monetize, yet many companies rely on them. This time the criticism is aimed at Google. The company could do more, but has for many years supported the projects with staff time and funding.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes in »FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs« for thenewstack.io

Lorenc added, in an e-mail to me, that “Creating and publishing software under an open source license is an act of contribution to the digital commons. Finding and publishing information about security issues in that software is also an act of contribution to the same commons.

The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.