Patrick, while I also would like to see this big fixed I have to point out that your rant is wrong on all counts.
Software in general has bugs that sometimes goes back years without getting fixed. Proprietary software has the very same problem. To sell updates it needs new features. So updates get rushed out with old bugs and plenty new features. If you look around you'll easily find many examples of this. Many open source programmers *are* paid - by IBM, Novell, Red Hat, Canonical, Intel and many other corporations with an interest in Linux. I also find this bug annoying - but it is not of the "highest priority" IMHO - especially as a workaround has been available for years: glipper/klipper. And lastly I can't agree that this is the reason why not more people use desktop Linux. The primary reasons are that people can't pick a game in a shop and be reasonably certain that their shiny new shrink wrap game works right away. Similar for legacy apps in corporations. And most people still don't even know that it exists. I put Ubuntu UNR on my sisters Netbook. Just yesterrday a neighbour of hers easily browsed around on it with Firefox (by now everybody knows Firefox :-) ). He later asked me if that was Vista because he never saw this version of windows before. I told him it's Ubuntu Linux - he said he never heard of it. And that's what most people (outside of our geek circles) would say. There's no big TV ad campaigns for Linux - nor is it prominently displayed in shops with retailers pushing it. And regular folks out there don't read computer magazines, Wired or slashdot. Linux grows slowly because it's expanding through a) geeks installing it on their families/friends computers after those were overrun by windows malware and a Mac was too expensive or b) by goverrnments trying to get more safety, less costs or often just avoiding closed software from big american copmanies they don't trust. I would very much like to see this bug fixed, but installing k/glipper or keeping the source app open while you copy/paste is not terribly difficult. Some day a GSoC project or somebody from IBM/et al will fix it. -- Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
