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Avogado: When Open Source Doesn’t Open and Source Doesn’t Matter

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 22, 2004

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“One frustration too many: time for a rant. When a bug in
Mozilla (keyboard focus is on the previously selected window) has
remained unfixed for at least 18 to 24 months, when XFree86 mouse
interaction with PS/2 or GPM remains hazardous and makes a system
unusable and that bug has been fobbed off to the kernel developers
and not dealt with for at least two years–when there are more
examples like this that make using Open Source software a pain,
what do you do?

“Are you one of the few people with the time and money and
expertise sufficient to delve into the source yourself to fix the
problem…?”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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