Gtk+ developers to community: “Fuck you and the horse you rode in on”

Remember the tired old argument against using open-source software for meaningful projects? It goes something like this:

You can’t rely on open-source developers because they’re only in it to ’scratch their itch’ and there is no attention to quality beyond their own personal interest

That line used to ruffle my feathers. Seemed like a throw-away line from [...]