On Tue, 13 Sep 2022, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
I agree with that. But the price-performance ratio could be even better if the "volunteers" in free/oss software projects were not free to ignore bugs reported to them.
Pretty much everything worked for this grub bug other than some unfortunate setting of priorities. The bug wasn't around long enough that you can assume it was being ignored. Yes, I agree there's some annoyance when volunteers ignore bugs that have patches, there's one in ucf that has caused me no end of grief but it's pretty easy to rebuild with patches and patches are easy to find. There was that recent bash + ssh bug that I got lots of help with here a few weeks ago. I have a patched bash - it would be nice not to have to keep that but it's not a big deal. I've been just as guilty the other way. I found a minor bug in dump but it took me ages (probably years) to bother report it and then it was fixed in a few days. Possibly I was the only person to encounter it and when I couldn't fix it in five minutes I just put up with it and did nothing.