>> 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

> Snort.. Well.. Even in opensource, sometimes the bugs either end up "low
> priority", or they become so ensconced in how the thing works that
> fixing them actually breaks the product. Not an excuse, but its a better
> one than, "We refuse to even believe that our users notice how shitty
> the product is, so here are 8,000 non-bugs we won't be fixing." lol

With something like GHC, where there are approximately 5 developers 
world-wide, you can kind of understand there being a bazillion 
outstanding bugs all set to very low priority. But this is Firefox we're 
talking about, the so-called premier open source web browser. You'd 
think they have a few developers to go around...

But hey, I suppose that's better than "this is fixed in the next release 

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