FFmpeg

The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers.

@Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is "high priority" 

After politely requesting a support contract from Microsoft for long term maintenance, they offered a one-time payment of a few thousand dollars instead.

This is unacceptable. 

We didn't make it up, this is what @microsoft @microsoftteams actually did:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10341#comment:4

The lesson from the xz fiasco is that investments in maintenance and sustainability are unsexy and probably won't get a middle manager their promotion but pay off a thousandfold over many years.

But try selling that to a bean counter

A few FAQs clarified here:

https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1775781628427555318

After nearly two years of waiting for @IloveRockchip to fix their FFmpeg copyright violation, one of the FFmpeg developers acted.

Thousands of lines of code were copied from FFmpeg.