@bathalumang_peppa@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agoHow a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bugarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1438arrow-down18
arrow-up1430arrow-down1external-linkHow a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bugarstechnica.com@bathalumang_peppa@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-square@Xanvial@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish-5•9 months 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-Demigodlinkfedilink10•9 months 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.
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.