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How a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bug
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
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This is what open source is all about: See a problem with your tool, fix it yourself, and everyone enjoys the improvements.
And this is why devs don't often focus on the minor issues. Haha. Good stuff.
To be clear, I love this story and kudos to Yifan Zhu for the initiative. Let's normalize crediting people properly
I see that this is one of the negative of OSS instead. Seems a lot of people aware of this bug, but there's no pressure to fix this until 22 years.
Or: It’s such a minor bug that nobody really cared enough and they devoted time to other, more important things. But they made the choice as a collective and not a bunch of suits in a board room.
This take makes no sense.