Nearly every commercial software package I have acquired since the release of Windows has behaved in this way. I have repeatedly reported numerous bugs to the XILINX people, just as an example, and because it has "bitten me in the *ss" recently, some in their long-established libraries, some in their documentation, and some in the way in which their software works, yet, even after a decade post-report, those specific problems persist. Other software houses, e.g. Microsoft, Corel, Cadence, Mentor, the infamous bEagle (Cadsoft), among others, all seem to prefer to ignore even very serious errors in their software.

I've noticed that SDCC sees fixes for reported bugs much sooner than "the next release" of commercial software. The key, of course, is that the people who fix the software are the ones who ultimately will use it to perform useful work, unlike the software droids who crank out commercial stuff that focuses on "looking kewl."

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