http://blog.tsmacdonald.com/archives/161 Accessibly Technical Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:10:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://blog.tsmacdonald.com/archives/161/comment-page-1#comment-49 Timmy Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:26:28 +0000 http://tmac.andrewmin.com/blog/?p=161#comment-49 It's true. A commenter on my old blog (I just switched domain names) pointed out that the bug was reported on AisleRiot, a patch was written and proposed, but then a consensus was reached to shoot it down in the name of "purity." There was no real fuss, it was just raised, discussed and agreed upon by the free software community. Score. http://tmac.andrewmin.com/blog/archives/161#comments It’s true. A commenter on my old blog (I just switched domain names) pointed out that the bug was reported on AisleRiot, a patch was written and proposed, but then a consensus was reached to shoot it down in the name of “purity.” There was no real fuss, it was just raised, discussed and agreed upon by the free software community. Score.
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]]> http://blog.tsmacdonald.com/archives/161/comment-page-1#comment-48 Rob Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:06:21 +0000 http://tmac.andrewmin.com/blog/?p=161#comment-48 What you call a bug is actually a rule in the game, which Microsoft did not invent. Still, open source software is awesome, and if someone were to patch a bug that wasn't a bug, someone else would just fix it back and it would be no big deal. What you call a bug is actually a rule in the game, which Microsoft did not invent. Still, open source software is awesome, and if someone were to patch a bug that wasn’t a bug, someone else would just fix it back and it would be no big deal.

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