And just because you aren't personally inclined to change it doesn't meant you can't benefit from the capability. Quite often I've used a fork of software that

And just because you aren't personally inclined to change it doesn't meant you can't benefit from the capability. Quite often I've used a fork of software that continued providing a feature the core distro discarded or added an experimental feature the main line hasn't been able to perfect enough to put into production. And it's common for someone else has to take up the banner to continue producing a library or software the original developer no longer has time or interest in producing. With commercial software however for the most part you're stuck providing a patch file with some hopefully not too complex instructions on how to hack it in.