I have mentioned this in the past, but there was this weird shift in culture just after 2000 where increasingly open source projects were made to please their users, whether they were corporate or not, and "your project is your CV" became how their maintainers would view their projects. It does not have to be this way and we should (like it seems to be the case with libxml2) maybe try to fix this culture?
That's fine for feature requests, but the issue in the present case is bug reports.
Not true. Many companies uses Linux for example.
They will just avoid using GPL software in ways that would impact their own intellectual property (linking a GPL library to their proprietary software). Sometimes they will even use it with dubious "workaround" such as saying "we use a deamon with IPC so that's ok"
> Not true. Many companies uses Linux for example.
I thought it was clear, given that this is a discussion about an open source library, that they were talking about GPL libraries. The way that standalone GPL software is used in companies is qualitatively quite different.
