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>which puts off people from contributing to it

Never cared about it, nor do now, neither do the thousands of major products and companies that embed it in their apps, code, etc. (from Gooogle Chrome to Apple's stuff to Adobe Lightroom to Dropbox, FOSS distros, hardware devices like routers, and countless others).

Nor does it bother contributors, to any degree that impacts this being one of the most well maintained, regularly updated, thoroughly tested and bugfixed, and stable FOSS of all time - if not the best in most of those regards (which is also the reason of its huge mission-critical adoption from the biggest names in the industry).

If this indeed has ever bothered anyone, it's still one of the most inconsequential bothers of all time...




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