[FFmpeg-devel] Sovereign Tech Fund

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 10:12, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Kieran Kunhya (12024-01-29):
> > A commercial SOW with a private company that took the commercial risk on
> > that contract taking longer or being more difficult than anticipated or
> > someone else doing the work without telling them.
> >
> > The terms of that contract were discussed in private and don't affect the
> > project itself.
>
> It does not affect the project itself except in resulting in a patch
> series that was developer all alone, wasting the benefit of having
> several competent people contributing ideas for the core design, and an
> attitude of urgency and closed-mindedness for anything that would delay
> applying the series once it was posted, even if it was severe breakage
> of features.
>

The patches were on the mailing list for months, there was a presentation
at VDD (livestreamed too).

Though you are proving my objections to this statement of work fallacy
which is great.

Kieran