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  Re: [patch] Suggesting trivial patch (again)  
From: Rick [Kitty5]
Date: 12 Feb 2003 18:38:37
Message: <3e4adafd$1@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> In article <3e4a1b89@news.povray.org> , Thomas Willhalm
> <tho### [at] uni-konstanzde>  wrote:
>
>> Why does it work for them but not for you?
>
> Because fools (aka people who don't read any manuals, readmes, etc)
> start patching those versions and the distribute them.  Or people
> compile them and never update and then come back three years later
> complaining that bugs supposedly haven't been fixed.  Has happened in
> the past...

So the whole idea is junk just because you have a problem with a few idiots.
Would the benefits of open development not outweigh the problems.


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Rick

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