Why do old bugs still exist?
It's really begun to baffle me why certain bugs within the FOSS world haven't been fixed yet, or have taken so long to be fixed. A couple that come to mind come from recent experiences I've had either directly, or indirectly with these bugs.
The first is a bug that was reported on not too long back. It was a 25 year old bug found in the BSD's that had until recently not been addressed, touched, or actually fixed (aside from a quick bandaid) for over 25 years. The bug may even span back as far as 33 years to AT&T Unix. There's another too that affects Linux users. (what? Did you think that only the BSD's and unix's had old unaddressed bugs?) It originally became a problem back in 2000, but wasn't addressed until 2006, and even today it's not fixed.
Another is a bug originally reported back in 1988 dealing with Gmake (aka gnu make) that has been reported repeatedly, and yet has not been fixed. And I could go on all day about bugs like this, but I won't. What bothers me is that old bugs like this continue to pervade the Open Source world, and yet are not fixed. If the application is relative and the bug is relative, why isn't it fixed? It seems silly to me that they are ignored.
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