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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.
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Why should he stop his work and start explaining (long posts) how he ported it? The purpose is not education but to port that x program. He was asked to port the program (for the millionth time) for his own fun, without getting paid and now we see bitching.