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  Re: Licensing, Ethics, Open Source and Philosophy  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 21 Jul 2008 12:03:57
Message: <4884b36d@news.povray.org>
Nicolas George wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich  wrote in message <48843f8c@news.povray.org>:
>> 							      I saw you have a 
>> few open bugs. Here are small fixes for those bugs.
> 
> Stop here. The source code was not available. The conversation is therefore:
> "I saw you have a few open bugs. I can not fix them without the source code.
> I will go and see if I can help someone else."
<snip>
> And sadly, the lack of access to the source code made him go away two years
> ago.

I provided one example of a bug existing since 3.5. I can add several more 
to that list, all publicly known and for none it is difficult to check that 
they still exist in 3.7. For none was a fix ever contributed in *seven* years!

	Thorsten


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