I thought Despair.com kept all of their old posters but I can't find the one you're reminding me of. It's a picture of an old Bell telephone. It says something

I thought Despair.com kept all of their old posters but I can't find the one you're reminding me of. It's a picture of an old Bell telephone. It says something like, "If we ignore the problem long enough it'll go away." Some problems like ancient versions of glibc are in fact likely to go away. But a security hole or ergonomics problem that gets ignored into closure may convince that user to switch to a competing project. Maybe in the marketplace of ideas that's actually a good thing. But it sucks for the people having to wander around. I've always considered that if code I declared done isn't, that it's akin to a broken promise. Now if you wanted it to do something completely different than what we discussed, or you've invented some new definition of a word in your mind, then I'm likely to be almost as ambivalent as the next person. But if I said it would do something and it doesn't then it's a problem. I have some trouble relating to people who can shrug this stuff off. It feels like a moral failure to me, and dismissals merely amplify that feeling.