alt Hacker NewsIsn't this like telling the world you ate a full meal by eating samples at Costco? Meta is ranking in billions as we speak, they ensure the FOSS projects they rely on are properly funded instead of shovelling cash to bullshit datacentre developments. Otherwise we're basically guaranteed to end up with another XZ fiasco once again when some tired unpaid FOSS maintainer ends up trusting a random Jia Tan in their desperation
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>Isn't this like telling the world you ate a full meal by eating samples at Costco?
The analogy fails because free samples cost costco (or whatever the vendor is) money. Raking Meta over the coals for using ffmpeg instead of paying for some proprietary makes as much sense as raking every tech company over the coals for using Linux. Or maybe you'd do that too, I can't tell.
I mean, they contributed their fixes upstream. Thats the most important thing they could do here.
Meta is the sole reason PHP is still alive. Also a big reason we're not in MVC hell.
They bet on open source and they open source a lot of technology.
It's one of the best companies when it comes to open source.
I don't know how much total they donate, but I've seen tons of grants given to projects from them.
This post is all about how they upstreamed their improvements!
If you get mad when a company makes good use of open source and contributes to a project’s betterment, you do not understand the point of open source, you’re just fumbling for a pitchfork.