Give a bug a hug

[Richard Gaskin]

Terry Judd wrote:

 > These seem to be bounties for finding critical (mostly security-
 > related) bugs rather than fixing them - hard to see large tech
 > companies outsourcing their security fixes.

Yes, probably not the best examples.  I could dig up others, but 
sometimes I feel like there would still be some way to pick it apart, 
and I'm not interested in spending my afternoon chasing sea lions.

The bottom line is the bottom line: the cost of work needed to support 
the feature set across the full range of supported platforms AND also 
attempt to be the only player with a million-line code base that's 
bug-free is greater than the revenue from the slender of subset of 
people who subsidize that work through proprietary licensing.

We can ask for anything, but wishing alone doesn't make it so.

The other day I stood on my roof and demanded an end to world hunger. 
When I got down the ladder I was still in a world where half of humanity 
goes to bed hungry every day. So instead I carry snacks on my bike, and 
when I'm out I give an apple or an orange to homeless people I meet. 
I'm not able to solve the global problem, but I can help alleviate it 
locally.

A sizable percentage of LC's bugs are in the IDE, written in the same 
language we all use.  Any of us could fix them, given the time.

And there's the rub: "given the time".

Time constraints are a key factor with most human endeavors.

Engine fixes will require something more, C++ skills not common in our 
scripting community.  The company pays for most of those, and once in a 
while folks in the community will pay for a fix or a feature here and there.

Everyone does what they can to have what they want.

It's not the most exotic notion in the world for people who want 
something to gather resources needed to have it.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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