>> MS and all their 3rd party cronies (and
>> yes, slapping "Designed for XP/Vista/Windows 7" on the box makes you a
>> crony), quite often won't even acknowledge that some problem even exist,
>> or that your could possibly be having one, never mind fix it.
>
> Whereas if you submit a bug to an open source project (assuming there is
> a bug tracker or even a way to /contact/ the developers), they will
> either mark it as WONTFIX or reply with "patches welcome".
>
> This /also/ does not fix the problem.

Exhibit A: Firefox (in fact, the Gecko renderer in the old Mozilla Suite 
before Firefox even had that name) has an 11 year old bug about 
character escaping not working in XML files. The developers first 
claimed that this isn't a bug, it's what the W3C spec requires. Then 
they just flatly said that they wouldn't fix it. The bug 29 duplicate 
tickets, and the main ticket has 129 comments, most of them being "OMG, 
TEN YEARS and you haven't fixed this yet? WTF? I'm using Opera now!!"

Yeah, open source development totally works. :-P

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