> You shouldn't report bugs you find in software you use on a daily basis. Those bugs are best left unfixed
A curious attitude!
A curious attitude!
Now this is an ideal. You can't live like this unless you're RMS. But it is true nonetheless.
If my car breaks I don't submit a 25 page engineering report to Ford. I replace the car, or fix the problem personally and move on. My job isn't to do somebody else's job, especially when that person is paid more then me.
Except this is, of course, false, since you already said he would live in a nicer walled garden. Making the walled garden nicer for him is a benefit for him, regardless of whether it's a walled garden or not.
"If my car breaks I don't submit a 25 page engineering report to Ford. I replace the car, or fix the problem personally and move on. My job isn't to do somebody else's job, especially when that person is paid more then me."
IMHO, this is a very sad attitude to have towards life.
(and what does being paid more or less than you have anything to do with anything?)
> Because it has no benefit for you, only for the company.
Really?! Making a tool you use every day better has no benefit for you? Sure, I can build my own text editor if I really wanted to, but I'd rather send a bug report to BBEdit to fix a problem in an otherwise good product.
Even if you don't bother to report usability issues or suggest improvements or what have you, if you encounter a bug that's blocking progress, sitting on your hands isn't going to help anybody.
(Of course, reporting it might not do much either ;) - but that's something you need to find out on a vendor-by-vendor basis. Some are responsive.)