On 9/23/2010 11:40 PM, Martin Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:20 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <wr...@apache.org> wrote: >> On 9/23/2010 11:13 PM, Martin Cooper wrote: >>> The other thing I'd say is that the answers to these questions are >>> going to depend a lot on the particular developers in question. A >>> couple of people have commented here on how great it is to be able to >>> dig in and find the root cause of a bug, and even fix it. That's great >>> for us open source nuts. But the vast majority of developers don't >>> give a hoot about why a tool or library or whatever doesn't work, >>> whether it's open source or not - they just want it to work. >> >> See, that's the difference. > > Well, yes and no. The question was about those who use or work with > open source, as I understand it. Whether those same people > _appreciate_ open source is somewhat different. (Or are you telling me > that I must not appreciate open source because I do have "ifs" > attached to where in the code I'll go, and won't dig in to fix a Linux > bug?)
Right. I won't fix every bug I encounter. I'll fix every bug in my way standing between me and completion of my current project(s). There is a difference (and I'm happy to jump operating systems to work around the platform bugs). > Likewise, those who just need a dependency to work are not necessarily > depending on a vendor to fix it. It may be an open source dependency > and they may not have the time, the inclination, or the leeway from > their legal department, to fix it themselves. Or... the author's legal department, c.f. MS bugs. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: community-h...@apache.org
