EUROPEAN SFS AWARD

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Open-source multimedia stack that started as a student project two decades ago and now powers browsers, phones, TVs and apps worldwide, claiming billions of downloads and adoption across Linux, Windows, Android, macOS and iOS. Project leadership resists corporate buyouts, creates a nonprofit and a supporting company, and sustains development with roughly 50–70 core volunteers and a nonprofit budget of ~50,000 euros. Recent work includes a tiny low-level player of 250,000 lines of handwritten assembly that ships on every device.

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