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From: =?UTF-8?Q?St=C3=A9phane?= CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr>
Subject: Re: Microslop: World's Biggest Leecher
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Le 13-04-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
> On 4/13/2024 4:28 AM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>> Le 10-04-2024, Lester Thorpe <lt@gnu.rocks> 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.

The emergency was in the comments. They have no possibility to stop
people putting pressure in the comments. Some people program and give
their code for any reason they have. Others, not happy enough with what
was given to them, put pressure on the developers to get more and fast.
Those people are parasites. They have no added value and have no issue
with the developers having a burn out.

That's what happened for the xz backdoor. It was technically a good
exploit, but it was a very impressive social engineering at the same
time.

As everyone thinks it's normal to request with pressure more than what's
given, everything is put in place for the developers to have a burn out.
It's not a good way to thanks the guys who gave you their code. 

It's not about Microsoft, it's about the way to take what's given. You
want it, you take it as it is. You can help if you want. But requesting
with pressure is not a good behaviour.


> 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)

In fact, I saw his name when I read the post, so I have nothing to
guess. Anyway, I don't believe it's him for two reasons. The first, as
you said, he has other matters to do than that. The second, I never
heard anyone say more stupidities about the computers than him (even
LP/DG/FR/NV/whatever can't compete). Maybe long ago he was a good
programmer, but it was certainly a long time ago. So, I'm very far from
sure he would be able to answer if he had time to do it.

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