How Did Magic Lantern Achieve What They Did? (Video)

Quoting Joe Marine from nofilmschool, Magic Lantern took

[…] a lot of work from a lot of dedicated people working for free in their off hours in order to experiment and squeeze every last ounce of potential out of these cameras. Those thinking this has been some sort of conspiracy on Canon’s part can take a look at the video above and see the exponential increase in development over the last 6 months. Just as with anything, developments can be slow in the beginning, but as things get going, they can really take off.