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 ...
The project blog FFmpeg has fantastic news to announce. The FFmpeg community is excited to announce that Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund has become its first governmental sponsor. Their support will help sustain the maintenance of the FFmpeg project, a critical open-source multimedia software component essential to delivering audio and video to billions of people around the world every day. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...