16 Apr
2011
16 Apr
'11
9:50 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:25:13PM -0600, Richard wrote:
In article <alpine.LFD.2.00.1104122029350.25360 at grumble.deltasoft.com>,
Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com> writes:
Not reallty. My employer regularly sends patches back upstream for fixes
(or extension) on quite a few open source projects. Even I've gotten patches
sent to me for stuff I maintain (private project) and yes, the patches worked.
Kind regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
You realize that you're interfering with his
"open source is crap!"
I never said open source is crap. If I thought that, why would I
recreate manx as an open source project?
narrative by dragging out facts 'n stuff,
right? :)
While it may be a fact that you *could* fix open source software
that's buggy because you have access to the source files, the
likelihood of anyone besides the original author doing this is low for
most open source software.