Comment 42 for bug 613119

Hi Alexander,

Yes, I know it's an open source one, and I realize that this is the death of the open source world: pointing at each other all the time. If you report a bug at Unity/Ubuntu, they point at this bug report. If you report it here, you say it's their fault, they should fix it!

See, my point is: from my perspective, I don't give a flying damn who's fault is it. It's a bug that has been reported and confirmed for 1.5 years.

It's so sad to see that all those talented people who are willing to contribute their efforts to these projects just want to create another 'world changing' project instead of solving the problems right here. Why bother with Netbeans, let's fix Eclipse. Oh, Eclipse got problems too, let's deal with jEdit. Oh, jEdit sucks too, let's...

I wish you'd charge $5 for every open source project. I wish you'd support it. I wish I could rely on you and your supported project.

I simply do not need 15 faulty Java IDEs. Nor need many version of Java runtime. I need one, that works and that is more than enough!

But now, what choices do I have? I have to opt out from Ubuntu as it's got severe, unresolved, "it's not my fault" type of bugs. Should I buy Apple? Oh, well, JDK 1.7 is not fully supported. Moving forward... Guess which platform is fully supported?

Anyway, please don't tell me that it has been hard for any Eclipse devs/architects to chase down a Ubuntu dev/architect while having a beer: hey, we need to fix it! Oh, well, I'll do it, it takes only 15 minutes or, whatever...

Or if this conversation is impossible, I'd strongly suggest abandoning any open source projects and supporting only licensed ones - they can and do have these type of conversations to support us, me, the user.

And BTW: thank you Alexander for your time and effort supporting open source projects!