Comment 110 for bug 358533

@Aaron: "You are not the first person think that behaving badly will make things better. It has been tried many times in the past and honestly doesn't work."

That's not my experience, and probably not even yours. This is just your *wish* for a Politeness God to exist, rewarding the righteous and punishing the wicked. Meanwhile on planet Reality, I have been profusely thanked by people whose daily work was made easier because I got authors of certain software artifacts to fix critical bugs after everyone else had been polite with them for years.

"Regardless of whether it works or not, it is not welcome in KDE."

So there we have this conflict between two unwelcome things: behaving badly and long-standing critical bugs. Both are definitely unwelcome, but there is an interesting relationship between them:

 - the former can be used to hasten the elimination of the latter
 - if the latter remains, the former is inevitable anyway
 - when the latter is eliminated, the former also vanishes