[NBLUG/talk] memory leaks

William Tracy afishionado at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 10:19:15 PDT 2007


On 8/30/07, calvin166 at pseudoweb.net <calvin166 at pseudoweb.net> wrote:
> Maybe this is obvious to everyone else and I'm just noticing, but does it
> seem to you guys that people are either a) not taking a proactive enough
> approach towards foss and/or b) willing to deal with more bugs/complain
> less about something they got for free?

Well, how many people do you see actually taking action against the
bugs in Windows? Microsoft even provides a helpful automatic crash
report tool ... and over half the people I've seen click cancel every
time.

Conclusion: People just don't care.

... Come to think of it, there's a bug report that I really should go
file against corewars. :-)

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