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I always find it interesting in hosting forums when people complain about the operation of an open source product they are using not doing something they want it to do and getting really mad at it. The performance sucks, or it has a bug, or whatever... Well, you know... it's open source and it's free. You can fix it if you want. But no one does, they just complain. And if they do fix it, they don't commit the changes…
I've locally fixed issues that I discovered, and then submitted the patches back. In every case, those patches have been rejected because they weren't formatted correctly, or the project lead disagreed with my choice of design, or the team didn't like my haircut, or whatever. After a certain point, one just stops bothering.
Re: Free software vs. SaaS: A matter of control?
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