bathalumang_peppa@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoHow a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bugarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1388arrow-down15
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minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up99·1 year agoThis is what open source is all about: See a problem with your tool, fix it yourself, and everyone enjoys the improvements.
minus-squareXanvial@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·11 months agoI see that this is one of the negative of OSS instead. Seems a lot of people aware of this bug, but there’s no pressure to fix this until 22 years.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9·11 months agoOr: It’s such a minor bug that nobody really cared enough and they devoted time to other, more important things. But they made the choice as a collective and not a bunch of suits in a board room.
minus-squarerelevantnanana@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThis take makes no sense.
This is what open source is all about: See a problem with your tool, fix it yourself, and everyone enjoys the improvements.
I see that this is one of the negative of OSS instead. Seems a lot of people aware of this bug, but there’s no pressure to fix this until 22 years.
Or: It’s such a minor bug that nobody really cared enough and they devoted time to other, more important things. But they made the choice as a collective and not a bunch of suits in a board room.
This take makes no sense.