Re: Time Change Issue Xen 4.1

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

Hello Niall,

On 12/01/11 10:53, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 08:55 +0000, Niall Fleming wrote:
>> Cheers, at least I know that someone is still looking at it!
>>
>> If someone could give me a general timeframe, like it'll be a month,
>> before we fix it, or two weeks or whatever, I just need to give my
>> line manager something so he gets off my case about it!
>
> I'm afraid OSS software doesn't generally work like that. If you (or
> your boss) wants something fixed on a specific time scale or priority
> you'll have to role your sleeves up and scratch the itch. Otherwise I'm
> sorry but you will just have to wait until someone has the cycles to
> look into this issue.

I shouldn't comment on this, because
- it'll be off-topic, and
- (more importantly) personally I'm not knowledgeable enough to fix the 
problem,

but I feel compelled to point out that *in general* it's not about the 
various rights accompanying the bits (ie. proprietary / open source / 
free software). It's about who gets to allocate whose resources. Under 
this aspect it's irrelevant under what rights the end product will be 
released, the question is instead who backs the effort & costs of the 
end product being hammered into existence.

Users of FLOSS tend to mix up these two things ("what rights do I have 
to the code?" vs. "work on this for my sake!"). For the second concept, 
commercial relationships are (and have always been) the default, even if 
extremely forthcoming FLOSS developers used to evoke a different impression.

(To make it abundantly clear, this is not an advertisment, and I'm 
speaking *strictly* personally, for myself alone.)

Laszlo