It’s a false dichotomy, pure and simple. They try to frame it in a way to make their invasion of your privacy seem as if it’s in your best interest, even though the opposite is true. Typical fascist rhetoric.

And the mandatory follow-up test of the fire extinguishers (doing the recovery in a production environment, of course)

But what will Hell be known for then?

Secondly, I might be wrong but I don’t think the Norwegian government gives the Nobel prizes, an organization based in Norway does

Correct. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by The Norwegian Nobel Commitee, not the government. The committee consists of members appointed by the Norwegian Parliament – again, not the goverment. The commitee thus a private body, and the government has absolutely no say in their selection of the recipient.

That’s just… factually wrong. Greenland is an autonomous part of The Kingdom of Denmark, and has therefore been a member of NATO since it’s founding in 1949.

Ah, the classic ad hominem, the mark of someone who has absolutely no problem backing up their bold claims with arguments, not just feelings! I wouldn’t touch your products even if I got paid to do so, given your attitude in this thread alone.

Couldn’t you rather provide the name of your company, so we know what software we should steer clear of?

So it was inconvenient for you, and that is somehow the FFmpeg squelching innovation? Grow up.

I only commented on you saying that switching to dynamic linking should be enough, which would not matter as long as you didn’t also make it possible for the user to relink a modified library if they wanted. That would be hard given your own description of users not being able to download or install anything on said system.

Talk about blame shifting. FFmpeg didn’t kill the project. Your own negligence did.