FFmpeg to Google Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs: https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/ by @sjvn
The clash between small volunteer-driven, open-source projects, such as FFmpeg & the billion-dollar companies built on their work, which demand rapid security patches, is heating up.
US corporations with billions of dollars of investment by petrostate despots
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/07/heres-a-look-at-who.html
Very keen on forever unpaid labor.
https://digit-research.org/blog/unpaid-work-and-the-case-of-open-source-labour/
https://www.promarket.org/2024/10/08/how-cultural-norms-help-companies-exploit-unpaid-workers/
https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/theory-on-the-politics-of-unpaid-labour/
Social media platforms; unpaid content "voluntarily" donated to billionaires Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, & Larry Ellison.
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/videos/unpaid-labour-in-the-platform-economy-a-typology-of-wage-theft-in-the-digital-age/
Unpaid media moderators
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/05/unpaid-social-media-moderators
https://cornellresearch.medium.com/dream-work-unpaid-labor-in-the-gig-economy-4926e673bec5
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Nicole Parsons