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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.



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)