To be fair, I do believe a lot of Linux organisations decided long ago it was more effective to focus developer efforts on projects where the patch acceptance ratio was higher (ie GNOME). So contributions are minimalistic now but don't blame people when there are so many worthwhile projects that make it easier to contribute.
No, you're not being fair at all.
Example of dropped work : back in oo.o 1.x time ximian oo.o started replacing the ugly openoffice artwork with gnomish modern stuff. Instead of building on that effort Sun chose to do its own thing in OpenOffice.org 2 (and users still complain today the result is unprofessional). Now I doubt you'll find anyone ready to spend time on prettifying oo.o buttons - Sun has make it clear any changes here won't be accepted.
Excellent example. Native widgets initiated by Dan Williams (nowadays of RedHat) and developed together with Sun engineering to deliver native gtk look. The same done completely independently by Kendy and accepted readily.
Face it: the patch acceptance is not that bad, It's just there are not many patches.
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