[NBLUG/talk] memory leaks

[David Rosenstrauch]

William Tracy wrote:
> On 8/30/07, calvin166 at pseudoweb.net <calvin166 at pseudoweb.net> wrote:
>> Maybe this is obvious to everyone else and I'm just noticing, but does it
>> seem to you guys that people are either a) not taking a proactive enough
>> approach towards foss and/or b) willing to deal with more bugs/complain
>> less about something they got for free?
> 
> Well, how many people do you see actually taking action against the
> bugs in Windows? Microsoft even provides a helpful automatic crash
> report tool ... and over half the people I've seen click cancel every
> time.
> 
> Conclusion: People just don't care.

I disagree there.  IMO the correct conclusions are: 1) people who are 
not tech-savvy don't understand what the feature is and fear it and so 
choose to not send the bug reports, and 2) people who are tech-savvy 
don't trust Microsoft enough to press a "send all kinds of private info 
and we're not even going to disclose what" button.

DR