On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 14:24 +0530, jtd wrote:
Non contributions may or may not be large or damaging, but we are not going to convince each other without hard data. As it stands I think everbody has plenty of other stuff to do, but it would be good exercise.
actually from my experience - and from discussions with others who are developing projects, the 'improvements' made by people who take the code and close the source and distribute without contributing back are usually worthless, so no great loss.