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Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by deadbunny on Sunday December 12, 2021 @08:02PM (#29535413)
Eh, I've submitted patches for everything from the kernel to bash scripts because of bugs I've run into at work that really affected us which we needed to fix ASAP.

Sure I didn't have to but isn't that the point of open source?

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Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by hutzlibu on Monday December 13, 2021 @02:24AM (#29537521)
There is a big cost of context switch. If you are such a genious, that you can just jump around in entirely different codebases fixing entirely different set of problems, in a way that actually improves things, than hats of to you, because I can't. I am not bored and I am fully occupied maintaining my own OSS codebase and I doubt some random dude could just come and fix a problem there (unless it is a really trivial one).
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