Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3464 mails)

[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 16 April 2007, Rajko M. wrote:

> How many fixed the problem and never published the fix?

Not many I bet, at least not for significant bugs.  Perhaps trivial one 
liners.

> They use free OS, but don't give back anything, keeping their knowledge for
> another opportunity to cash on it.

Or, alternatively, have no intent to cash in on it at all, just want to get 
their job done.

You need only read about the demanding standards necessary for
submitting patches (especially to the kernel tree) to know that you can't 
simply hand in a patch and expect it to see the light of day unless you
are well versed in the mechanics and politics of that portion of the 
community.

I suspect these imagined fixers-but-never-submitters were submitters
at some point in the past who never got so much as a thanky thanky back, and 
decided it was not worth it.

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