[mythtv-users] Why Free Software has poor usability ?

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Tue Aug 5 17:18:57 UTC 2008


Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> It is a certain area of problems that would have been fixed by now in
> some way in commercial software.

If you think fixing memory leaks is a high priority in commercial 
software, you haven't used much commercial software. ;)

The fact is memory leaks are exceedingly hard to track down, and they 
plague almost everything written in C and C++.  The design of those 
languages practically ensures that memory leaks will exist.



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