Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: DFS Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Microslop: World's Biggest Leecher Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:03:50 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <17c4f19671a3bb07$1$2544727$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <661a422f$0$8245$426a34cc@news.free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 16:03:47 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="af413ceb16f1118d87adefdbf9352c6d"; logging-data="3197325"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+vGpxGI6/GATtNBfzb0olg" User-Agent: Betterbird (Windows) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nvyqhT7zBa2Vr4to550iulc96JU= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <661a422f$0$8245$426a34cc@news.free.fr> Bytes: 2150 On 4/13/2024 4:28 AM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote: > Le 10-04-2024, Lester Thorpe a écrit : >> Microslop, the world's richest company, is also the world's biggest >> leecher: >> >> https://aussie.zone/post/8540166 > > Thanks for that. > >> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! The world's highest paid software >> engineers have to go begging to a FOSS project for assistance and >> then expect immediate, high priority attention just because they >> are Microslop. > > That's the real issue. There is nothing wrong i using FOSS for a big > company. But expecting high priority assistance for free is really > scandalous. Why? They allow the submitter to assign a priority. If they don't want to address critical bugs first, they shouldn't allow you to assign an importance. And you'll never guess who replied to the MS bug report and provided a fix. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10341#comment:4 (if that's really him. I'd question him spending his time answering ffmpeg bug reports when he has big companies to run)