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« Kamila was born in 2004. The bug she fixed was already two years old by then. She grew up, went to university, became a graduate student and a teacher and the bug just sat there, in a codebase maintained by a handful of enthusiasts, waiting. It took someone who actually uses E16 as a daily driver to finally stumble onto it and care enough to fix it.
That is the true open source spirit. Not a big company, not a bounty program, not a CVE filing. Just a person, their computer, a frozen desktop, and the curiosity to figure out why. » 🥲