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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
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> All bugs can be debugged or fixed, it's a matter of how hard it is 
> to do (generally easier with open-source) and *who* is responsible 
> for doing it (i.e. supporting the modules).

Yes, exactly. The tainted mechanism is there to tell us that it's not 
*our* problem to support it. And you deliberately screwed that up,
which is why everybody is pissed at you.

M.