Comment 1591 for bug 1

Hi :)
It is possible to post bug-reports against Launchpad.  Same as Bugzilla which a lot of other projects use.

Not many projects have their own bug-tracking system.  Most use an independent system such as Bugzilla, Launchpad or perhaps others.  This creates competition between those projects.  If one behaves exceptionally well then distros or perhaps smaller projects start using it if they were disatisfied with whatever they were currently using.

It's the same for most packages.  For example Ubuntu doesn't create it's own Office Suite or Web-browser.  The default choices can be swapped-out and replaced for other ones.  I tend to remove OpenOffice and replace with LibreOffice and now many distros have switched to defaulting to LibreOffice.  If OpenOffice suddenly became awesome i might switch back.  By keeping it's independence OpenOffice is given the chance to compete in a fair way and perhaps bounce back.  This approach means that projects tend to make sure they respond quickly to users requirements.  Indeed one of the problem of OpenOffice has been it's lack of competition (KOffice/Caligra had a tiny niche as did Gnome Office although all 3 can be run on Windows) and so it was able to get away with very little progress.

The Microsoft way is very similar to the Borg.  They absorb/take-over/assimilate a project and force it to comply with what management demands of it.  There is almost no chance of normal users being able to influence the default choices.  Projects inside MS compete with each other to please upper management, not users.  Borg drones move very slowly and machines running Windows are very slow too.

I have not used MS bug-tracking.  In fact i can't access it at all.  I have not used Launchpad much either but i do notice that a lot of bug-reports do get solved.
Regards from
Tom :)