The last time I reported a bug of any sort to anyone, I reported quite a serious iOS security hole via Radar.
The Apple engineer who responded quite angrily closed my bug as "works as expected". He didn't just close the bug - he expressed a great deal of anger for having reported the exploit at all. I'm not real clear what his reasoning was. It wasn't just because of this one engineer that I stopped reporting bugs, rather that was the end of a long series of failures of vendors to fix bugs reported not just by myself but by others. If my only problem was the software that ran on my own computer, I could either select quality software, or use Free Software so I could fix the bugs myself. This yields no joy, because so many websites are buggy. I tell you, I have come to regard my Retina Display MacBook Pro as an albatross around my neck. I would like nothing more than to hurl it off a bridge into the Willamette River. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote: > >> On 7 Jan 2015, at 9:56 am, Uli Kusterer <witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net> wrote: >> >> It's amazing how many people don't understand what the phrase "leaving >> aside" means on this mailing list. :-p > > > True, but it's also clear that it's a source of frustration for developers, > and one where there's no easy way to either vent that frustration, or more > constructively, let apple know how we feel collectively. It's no good filing > a bug, as they're always closed as "behaves as expected". > > There's obviously a pent-up need to discuss the issue, so any thread like > this is seized on as an excuse. It may be useless, but it helps us feel that > a) we're not alone and b) better for having got it off our chests. > > --Graham > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/mdcrawford%40gmail.com > > This email sent to mdcrawf...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
