Germany's sovereign tech fund donated a bit more than $150k. What is a year of META Engineer time? $300k? More? If they spent a year of Engineering time, Meta gave more than double Germany's sovereign tech fund. My guess is that they have a team, probably including more than junior and mid level software engineers, working on media encoding and upstreaming patches, so I wouldn't be surprised if they are providing in terms of work at least $1M a year.
Germany's sovereign tech fund donated a bit more than $150k. What is a year of META Engineer time? $300k? More? If they spent a year of Engineering time, Meta gave more than double Germany's sovereign tech fund. My guess is that they have a team, probably including more than junior and mid level software engineers, working on media encoding and upstreaming patches, so I wouldn't be surprised if they are providing in terms of work at least $1M a year.
Not in Germany it isn't! Or really anywhere except silicon valley.
"while the funding mentioned in the [Meta] post is appreciated, it's not enough to sustain the project" https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2029053011314786701
It wouldn't really be a good fundraising move to tell everyone that Meta took care of everything this fundraising year.
Do we know how much Meta donated to ffmpeg? A quick search shows that the German STF donated €157,580.00 for 2024/2025.
What a joke … Meta making billions and saving millions by not brewing their own stuff can not give more than some national fund.
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