Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

[Martin Owens]

The quickness aside, the actual advantage to Free and Open Source is
that if the problem is sufficiently bothersome, you have the right to go
out there and either fix it yourself or hire someone capable of fixing
it.

The speed is probably a result of that, someone else investing time or
money into the problem.

In all other respects, it's best not to think of these patches as a free
service.

Martin,

On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 11:29 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> The positive thing about this is that the bug has been accepted and is
> actively being worked on.  One benefit of Linux (and other open source
> systems) is that patches can generally be made available quicker than
> in
> closed-source systems.