Developer Yakov Till, AKA Lepsus, is largely credited with the fix (for “95% of the engineering work”). They get the monetary reward and heartfelt thanks of those who pledged to support the bug bounty.
We conclude by pondering whether this kind of private bug bounty, organized to eliminate computing annoyances, could set a trend.
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ezst036 Crowdfunding a bug fix. This is genuinely cool. Some might say that's not a lot of money and not worth the dev time. That so completely misses the point. Reply
Joomsy Interesting to see Alderon contributing to this. They're one of the only Unreal game devs that I know of that ship out native Linux builds of their games, so it's nice to see that they're legitimately interested in seeing issues fixed on Linux. Some might say that's not a lot of money and not worth the dev time. That so completely misses the point. Especially when you consider that most Linux dev work is done by volunteers. $2k is rather substantial for these starving artists. Reply
The Beav Should check out the Rimworld mod market discord; you pay people to make the mods you want… And it's busy as hell. It's the only comparative thing I can think of. Admin said: Reply
Shiznizzle ezst036 said: Crowdfunding a bug fix. This is genuinely cool. Some might say that's not a lot of money and not worth the dev time. That so completely misses the point. Yakov Till is the dev . If this guy is russian then that 2000 dollars will be a small jackpot considering the state of the ruble or is it spelled rubble? Reply
das_stig No class action case again Lenovo for supplying faulty software? regardless that it's Linux and open source, they supply a product with a known fault, they should repair or in this case, demand Realtek fix their driver. Lenovo show some class, refund the money and get Realtek to update the driver going forward. Reply
wakuwaku das_stig said: No class action case again Lenovo for supplying faulty software? regardless that it's Linux and open source, they supply a product with a known fault, they should repair or in this case, demand Realtek fix their driver. Lenovo show some class, refund the money and get Realtek to update the driver going forward. No maybe you should show some class. Lenovo markets those laptops as Windows laptops. They have no obligation to release drivers or contribute any other code for Linux or any other operating system. It would be nice if they did, but that's the point. IT WOULD BE NICE , but they don't have to. Realtek also has no obligation to release/update their drivers for every single custom combination of hardware, firmware and software for every company that uses their codecs. They only have responsibility for their own products. If oems decide to use Realtek codecs with their own implementations of speaker/amplifier/firmware combination, thats on the oem and/or the manufcaturer/developer of the other parts of that said implementation. There are so many different combination possibilities in the world from so many different manufacturers and developers, and you want one company to take responsibility for all of them? For FREE? Please be realistic. Even devs working on bug bounties work on them for money. Reply
snemarch wakuwaku said: No maybe you should show some class. Lenovo markets those laptops as Windows laptops. They have no obligation to release drivers or contribute any other code for Linux or any other operating system. It would be nice if they did, but that's the point. IT WOULD BE NICE , but they don't have to. No company should be forced to dedicate development time for Linux support, but they should be **forced to** release enough information publicly, without NDAs, that any competent kernel developer could implement drivers for **any** operating system to unlock **full** capabilities of the hardware. Reply
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