http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17390
--- Comment #12 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net 2010-09-08 07:40:47 CDT --- (In reply to comment #9) (In reply to comment #10)
Hi i'm new here :) From my point of view - here is a bug, which was abandoned by original reporter (for whatever reason) and is marked as abandoned. That's correct.
And when nobody else found it during two years, that means fixing could help mostly/only original reporter.
hiya wyida,
your comments are particularly interesting, and i apologise that there is insufficient context such that it appears to be the case.
yes, that would be the case... _if_ the "original reporter" was spending their time on personal projects, personally making money for themselves out of the work.
that is, however, entirely an assumption, and in fact the software being installed and improved at the time was entirely free software, and the work being carried out was entirely for the benefit of free software users and for the benefit of the free software community.
it is therefore very unfortunate that one of the wine developers chose to call me "lazy", and i had hoped that the matters which caused them to make such accusations would have resolved itself by now, but it appears that it has not. thus i must once again be the person who highlights these matters to the attention of another group of free software developers, and be the "lightning rod" which somehow, for some reason, encourages people to attack me, and thus they learn, through being shocked by their own behaviour, not to do it again, not to me and not to anyone else, ever again.
i apologise for this, but this has happened so many times now that i'm getting used to being treated like shit, and later - _much_ later - people working out where they behaved incredibly badly.