On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:57:28 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: >> Broke my sound card. It was never fixed... had to get a new one. > > Works just fine here. [TM] Stupid pointless response. > Works just fine here. [TM] Stupid pointless response. >> Broke my USB broadband modem (this was eventually fixed). > > All USB devices work just fine here [TM]. (Printers, palm, bluetooth, > usbdisks, joysticks, scanners, etc) Stupid pointless response. Three strikes. >> All of these were dutifully recorded in bugzilla, and with the >> exception of the broadband modem all were left to rot. Not forgetting >> the legion of SELinux problems that I encountered, recorded in detail, >> only to have them ignored and remain unfixed for two major release at >> least (privoxy... yes... I'm looking in your direction). > > As shocking as it sounds, the Fedora devs are -not- your employees and > are -not- yours to command. Oh be quiet you silly fool. > Yes, some bugs are left for dead and it's -your- job to try to get the > devs attention if you want them fixed. (Or, better yet, report the > problem upstream and try to help the devs help you - Gee, now that's a > novel idea!) Here's a novel idea... people should pay attention to bugzilla. Shocking suggestion, I know. > Here's a question for you: > If Fedora is pure crap (in your eyes), -why- are -you- still using it? I'm not. I dumped it when I started having yet more problems after upgrading.