Bug fixes that are only available to commercial license holders... Really?
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@JonB said in Bug fixes that are only available to commercial license holders... Really?:
Yes, Really....
Yeah, I know I am bitching, but it's just that I don't understand the logic behind all this.
It's like to say to their paying customers:
"Look, we found all these bugs in the previous release, and got them fixed in a nice new package, only for you. As for those open-source suckers, they'll have to apply the fixes themselves on this one. That'll show them! Isn't that a bang for your buck?"Cheers.
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@Diracsbracket said in Bug fixes that are only available to commercial license holders... Really?:
Yeah, I know I am bitching
Eh! When I heard of it, I did too. You are most certainly not uniquely evil in that regard.
but it's just that I don't understand the logic behind all this.
Money. There's a lot of arguments back an forth on the mailing lists. It was rather epic, honestly. If you want to be up to speed on all the drama, the mail list archive is the place to start.
It's like to say to their paying customers:
"Look, we found all these bugs in the previous release, and got them fixed in a nice new package, only for you. As for those open-source suckers, they'll have to apply the fixes themselves on this one. That'll show them! Isn't that a bang for your buck?"Feels that way, yeah. The official stance for OSS is to upgrade to the next available release, which should include the bugfixes.
My personal opinion: it is a dick move, but then again, life goes on. -
I'm pretty sure there will be soon some people who collect all (or at least important) fixes for 5.15.x. Most of them are visible through gerrit so just someone needs to write a script... ;)
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