I've been fooling around with Ubuntu Linux for a while now. About a month ago, I stumbled upon a piece of software called Ubuntu-Tweak that puts a lot of configuration options right at your fingertips. Without the software, these tweaks were either impossible to achieve or were scattered all around the many GNOME menus. After some meddling around with Tweaks, I noticed that after selecting one of the options for power management (such as running the CPU at low power to increase battery life), it was impossible to go back to "normal." I posted a polite comment on the developer's website.
I opened up U-T today and was greeted with a message that a new version is available. I checked the change log, and there it is: ten days after submitting an informal request, it was included in the software (amongst several other changes as well).
This is why I love open source software. The developers actually have the motivation and the means to accept and respond to user comments. Rather than filling out a form on a corporate website and hoping for an update months down the line, the result was next to immediate. It also feels really good to have contributed to someone's project, and to know that they won't use my suggestions just to make more money.
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