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Originally Posted by Marlon_

It was spoken in a general sense. Everyone that ports something treats it like a one way thing. "Oh, this thing is free, why not port it?" A lot of work later: "here's a binary, enjoy!". None of the fixes reach the original source, nor any explanation how they got it to work.

The purpose of opensource is sharing. If you're not sharing it means someone else will have to go through the exact same thing again for no reason at all.

That's all true.