To me, the quote and what you put after came as a big surprise - I was ready to nod in agreement as you recognize this as a sad story about the platform.
The last time I was working on a text editor (KDE's Kate) and found a bug in the text layout engine it was written against (Qt's), I wrote a patch, submitted it upstream and it made everyone else's apps better, too.
I can't imagine the world of hurt, discomfort and frustration of developing against a lib set I can't read source code of or improve.
The last time I was working on a text editor (KDE's Kate) and found a bug in the text layout engine it was written against (Qt's), I wrote a patch, submitted it upstream and it made everyone else's apps better, too.
I can't imagine the world of hurt, discomfort and frustration of developing against a lib set I can't read source code of or improve.