Matthew King wrote: > Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> writes: > >>> It works fine on Linux, ship it! >> If only people would actually test even that far that their software >> configures/builds/tests/installs in *Linux* >> (as in: at least *try* more than one release of a distro, more than >> one distro, more than x86 [1]). But I think I >> will get my polka-dot unicorn pony before any of that happens. > > Test things? That's what open sores are for. > > If you download software which won't compile, even on the author's box, > without paying. Well what's your problem, it was free wasn't it?
No, it wasn't. I wasted hours, either my employer's, or my own (which is even harder to come by) trying to get the damn thing to work. > Patch it yourself. <steam coming out of my ears/>I'm more than capable of, but I just wasted several hours because the author of the software couldn't be bothered. I don't feel like to.</steam> Not that I'm saying commercial software is better. It's usually worse. > Matthew >
