bathalumang_peppa@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoHow a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bugarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1435arrow-down16cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansfirefox@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1429arrow-down1external-linkHow a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bugarstechnica.combathalumang_peppa@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square20fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansfirefox@lemmy.ml
minus-squareXanvial@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·1 year agoI see that this is one of the negative of OSS instead. Seems a lot of people aware of this bug, but there’s no pressure to fix this until 22 years.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoOr: It’s such a minor bug that nobody really cared enough and they devoted time to other, more important things. But they made the choice as a collective and not a bunch of suits in a board room.
minus-squarerelevantnanana@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoThis take makes no sense.
I see that this is one of the negative of OSS instead. Seems a lot of people aware of this bug, but there’s no pressure to fix this until 22 years.
Or: It’s such a minor bug that nobody really cared enough and they devoted time to other, more important things. But they made the choice as a collective and not a bunch of suits in a board room.
This take makes no sense.