Comment 80 for bug 170049

Jayson: Thank you for adding absolutely nothing of value here other than whining that a free piece of software isn't the most perfect tool for you personally. It HAS been discussed about why various attempts to fix this over the years have been shot down... basically we need to maintain compatibility with documents created in the past and fix it properly once and for all. Various features in the software currently expect the coordinates to exist as they do now and it's not a quick fix. If it was, it would have been fixed.

I'm sorry you feel somehow personally slighted for something nobody has asked you to pay for or to use. We're currently working with our legal counsel on the framework to allow payed projects under the umbrella of our organization and I wouldn't be surprised if someone were to take this on once that is in place. Either way, almost everyone who works on this project is volunteering. Anyone being payed is being done so by a third party and the terms of their arrangement (including what they are working on) is not something we have control over.