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If by army you mean underfunded open source volunteers then yes.

• worldsavior 1y ago
  That's the point, they don't have the fund but still give the sense of fight and power of an army.
• Almondsetat 1y ago
  If it's free, can you even talk about underfunding?
  • dewey 1y ago
    You can donate to a free project, including yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/Maintainers.md#maintainers https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/Maintainers.md#...)
    • Almondsetat 1y ago
      The developers can arbitrarily decide their own goals and always claim underfunding, that's why it's meaningless in this context
      • dewey 1y ago
        I'm not sure what you are arguing for or against, but the fact that big corporations are built on top of the work of volunteers (curl, ffmpeg) who mostly have to beg for funding is a known fact. Example from yesterday: https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/ https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-send...
        • Almondsetat 1y ago
          Nobody "has to" beg for funding, because nobody is forcing them to work! You are underfunded if you are forced to accomplish a task and are given too little money. In community driven projects this is not the case. The only thing keeping the developers from taking a nice vacation is their abstract own sense of duty, which is their prerogative, but completely optional