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> The customer has nuclear weapons. They do not do "bounty". :)

Not only is this not funny, it would likely have the unfortunate effect of turning off any of the "very, very, very, few individuals"[0] who might be able to help. The fact that the issue apparently remains open after a year and a half seems to attest to that.

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=95644#c8

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Yeah, that sort of entitlement would throw this issue at the bottom of the priority queue for me. They're lucky they even got a nice workaround kludge posted in the thread. Knowing that probably 3 layers of government contractors are being paid fat stacks to accomplish the task of posting breathless "bump, wen fix?" on the maintainer mailing list is salt in the wound. I would have closed the issue right then and there as a wontfix, personally. We shouldn't enable those sort of attitudes towards volunteers.

Definitely nauseating that "Bill Long" probably gets paid $450 an hour for their time but can't manage to just write the patch themselves or find one of the thousands of programmers in their org to deal with it and submit a fix.

Indeed. If the bug were assigned to me, my inclination would be to respond: you're being paid -- so Use the Source, Luke.

Not only that, it seems to actually have. All the developers started saying things like this:

> I also did not test the libquadmath portion. ENOTIME.

> I don't have much time, but

With every statement they added. It's actually like clockwork, every developer after that point said how they had little time.

I don't see how one can not find it funny.

Then again, I've never particularly desired to work for that line of "customer".

It's funny in the abstract. It's not so funny when the implication/connotation is to light a fire under the ass of FOSS maintainers.

That's how I read it at least.

I read it as just a joke. But that's often how I read things.

"Oh, well, you shouldn't have spent all your money at the nuclear bomb depot. If you'd saved a million dollars for lil 'ol me, I'd surely help."

"Fortunately I accept 'interesting trades' as payment, wink wink!'

Who do you think you are, Pepsi?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48343589

My first thought was to do a quick vote if maybe we could revoke their license to use the software.

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