Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Aug 2009 00:12 UTC, submitted by rexstuff
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2006-03-29
That would in fact be one way.
Though experience shows that once a hack is in it takes pretty long to get it removed --> look at the hacks in KDE 3.
Especially if people denied there was a bug at all in the beginning. They would simply say that the hack "fixed" the bug and the bug was in your application so no need to change anything in their code.
"As long as it 'works' there is no reason to change it." (not a quote! rather a way of thinking)