Hi :)
It is possible to post bug-reports against Launchpad.  Same as Bugzilla which a 
lot of other projects use.  

Not many projects have their own bug-tracking system.  Most use an
independent system such as Bugzilla, Launchpad or perhaps others.  This
creates competition between those projects.  If one behaves
exceptionally well then distros or perhaps smaller projects start using
it if they were disatisfied with whatever they were currently using.

It's the same for most packages.  For example Ubuntu doesn't create it's
own Office Suite or Web-browser.  The default choices can be swapped-out
and replaced for other ones.  I tend to remove OpenOffice and replace
with LibreOffice and now many distros have switched to defaulting to
LibreOffice.  If OpenOffice suddenly became awesome  i might switch
back.  By keeping it's independence OpenOffice is given the chance to
compete in a fair way and perhaps bounce back.  This approach means that
projects tend to make sure they respond quickly to users requirements.
Indeed one of the problem of OpenOffice has been it's lack of
competition (KOffice/Caligra had a tiny niche as did Gnome Office
although all 3 can be run on Windows) and so it was able to get away
with very little progress.

The Microsoft way is very similar to the Borg.  They absorb/take-
over/assimilate a project and force it to comply with what management
demands of it.  There is almost no chance of normal users being able to
influence the default choices.  Projects inside MS compete with each
other to please upper management, not users.  Borg drones move very
slowly and machines running Windows are very slow too.

I have not used MS bug-tracking.  In fact i can't access it at all.  I have not 
used Launchpad much either but i do notice that a lot of bug-reports do get 
solved.  
Regards from
Tom :)

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