[NBLUG/talk] memory leaks

Christopher Wagner waggie at waggie.net
Fri Aug 31 20:37:59 PDT 2007


David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> 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.
>   
To be fair, the bug reporting tool that Microsoft uses does offer to the
user the option to see precisely what is sent to Microsoft.  Gnome also
has a bug reporting tool built-in, as does many other pieces of software
out there.  I believe the barrier is not that people don't care, but
mostly that they're lazy..  I will openly admit that if it's not a
problem that's actually prohibiting me from simply re-opening the
application and continuing my work, I am simply too lazy to go through
the motions of the bug report.  Also, if a newly installed application
doesn't work without major tinkering, I usually move on to an
application that does work without lots of tinkering about.

- Chris



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