What defines profit in this case? I realize that this post was likely tongue-in-cheek, but I think my question is still valid. I'm trying to explore the answer to that question myself: http://blog.fogus.me/2011/02/28/the-keepers-of-answers/
But I'm not sure if I've hit on it yet. Maybe I should try Quora. ;-)
Valid question. The result in this case was getting a patch that was already committed into the development branch, just not yet released.
I actually did debug it (i.e. I found the cause of the bug, just didn't know whether fixing it in the most obvious place wouldn't break anything elsewhere - it occurs it might) but my fix would probably be suboptimal and I'd probably waste the developers' time with a superfluous bug report (and maybe the suboptimal patch too).
profit: From Middle English profit < Old French profit (French: profit). < Latin profectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”) < proficere (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”); see proficient. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/profit
Similar use in French means something like "I took advantage [of it]".
...or it could just be a reference to the Underpants Gnomes...
But I'm not sure if I've hit on it yet. Maybe I should try Quora. ;-)