Comment 1657 for bug 1

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 18:04, »John« <email address hidden> wrote:
> Let me borrow the words of Matthew Garrett:
> "I was greatly relieved to discover that commercial software sucks just as
> much as Free software does, except I can't fix the bugs myself."

It takes a while to dig into a project and although I have invested a
few time for 2 or 3 projects to fix a few bugs, I cannot dig into
every project where I find bugs. I have to rely on others fixing it -
of course just because of time and not because of being impossible -
at least I can choose which projects are more important for me and of
course they need to be programmed in a language that I am quite
familiar with.

> Proprietary code is notorious for being a steaming pile of crap held
> together by truckloads of duct tape and the list of ancient bugs, that it's
> authors never bother to fix until it's too late just goes on forever.

Oh yes, how true! - I have written code that I knew will never be seen
by others and other code I have written with the others in mind.
Already the others in mind made my code cleaner and better documented.

Best regards, Martin.
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Martin Wildam

http://martin.wildam.org/