On Mar 20, 2013 12:49 PM, "Tom Callaway" <tcallawa@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/20/2013 03:26 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> > So if the question is "what entity is responsible for the gdm package",
> > the answer really is ultimately neither GNOME, nor Fedora, nor Ray, nor
> > any other entity.
>
> You're being pedantic. There is liability and then there is our
> community responsibility to work with the end-user on any bugs they
> encounter. Fedora bears the latter, and will continue to do so, via
> bugzilla. Obviously, this is without legal guarantees of any sort, but
> to say "No entity is responsible" isn't really accurate.
>
> Any packager on any component who doesn't make any attempt to address
> bugs in their Fedora component is likely to be removed from that package.
>
> ~tom

In a judge's opinion, (myself a political science undergrad), the responsibility for software bugs in our product probably lies with Red Hat, since that is our commercial aside, which, on the open side, as Tom concluded, would likely result in removal "from that" and probably other packages. Responsibility for a software bug, unlike Bill Gates who society let sell a horrible, bug-ridden system to them, has to rest somewhere.

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