Comment by account42
7 days ago
This doesn't change the original point that such behavior makes it less likely for users to bother with detailed bug reports. Bug reporting in OSS isn't just the developers doing free work for the users to fix their issues, it is also the users doing free work for the developer QA-testing their software.
For GTK, it’s all free work. You didn’t pay for it. You got the source for free. So yes, you are doing free work for the GTK team, just like anyone contributing to GTK is doing free work to fix it for you. This is fair.