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I always find it interesting in hosting forums when people complain about the operation of an open source product they are using not doing something they want i

by fnid2 17y ago

I always find it interesting in hosting forums when people complain about the operation of an open source product they are using not doing something they want it to do and getting really mad at it. The performance sucks, or it has a bug, or whatever... Well, you know... it's open source and it's free. You can fix it if you want. But no one does, they just complain. And if they do fix it, they don't commit the changes to get them integrated, so they can't upgrade anymore. shrug

akd 17y ago
How many people have the ability to actually improve something? Should those people not demand quality? I can't engineer a car - does that mean I shouldn't get mad when my airbags fail to deploy? I can't cook well - does that mean I shouldn't be disappointed by a substandard meal at a restaurant?
- fnid2 17y ago
  You pay good money for a car. You pay good money for restaurant food. A better analogy would be going to a food shelter, getting a free meal, then complaining that they didn't put enough salt on it, when the salt is right there on the table in front of you.
dstorrs 17y ago
I've locally fixed issues that I discovered, and then submitted the patches back. In every case, those patches have been rejected because they weren't formatted correctly, or the project lead disagreed with my choice of design, or the team didn't like my haircut, or whatever. After a certain point, one just stops bothering.
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