I used to work in a ~2 bil unicorn in which a big part of the products we worked on relied on ffmpeg.
Still, good reminder to speak up about the products to leadership and see if we can get them to donate.
When you have a direct involevment in the project it surely helps.
And thanks for supporting 7z, from a guy who use it dayly! *cheers*
Nobody had to explain to me the concept of donating to support somebody working on something my business relies on, it's just common sense.
If I was really reliant on books documenting tolls and laws in regards to international trades, and you wanted to give a donation to support this work, I wouldn't be all "me no understand, please explain it in programmer-speak for me".
You love programming and wouldn't help a group of people try to destroy it, right>
Well, business people love money and don't want to help people not give it to them or not let them keep it.
(toungue in cheek but 60% serious...)
*Fabrice Bellard. Also creator of QEMU, TCC, QuickJS, and others.
> The name of the project is inspired by the MPEG video standards group, together with "FF" for "fast forward"
Corresponding source (Fabrice Bellard himself): https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2006-February/0103...
In all seriousness though, the sheer amount of devices running code he wrote at any given moment is just ridiculous.
Comparable only to famous film director Alan Smithee who has credit for so many films.