[SGVLUG] Developers fast to fix open-source bugs

[Dustin Laurence]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 12:00:55PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:10:27PM -0700, matti wrote:
> > 
> > fyi - thought this was interesting
> > 
> > best
> > matti
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > Developers fast to fix open-source bugs
> > http://news.com.com/Developers+fast+to+fix+open-source+bugs/2100-1002_3-6057669.html
> 
> My experience has been the opposite.  Some Debian packages like
> linuxdoc-tools, or hwclock (part of package util-linux), are (or were)
> unmaintained so bug report accumulate, including ones that include
> code to fix the bug.  But years go by and it never gets fixed because
> there's no maintainer.

I have a nice little proprietary Commodore 64 word processor, and there
haven't been any bug fixes in years!

Dustin, "in other words, if you are counting unmaintained FLOSS
         packages, you must also count all the abandoned proprietary
         programs which have no maintainer either"
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