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FW: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'we're sooooooooo evil!</bluecat>'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:49:32 +0100
- Subject: FW: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On 16 August 2006 00:04, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:53:17PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>> John W. Eaton wrote:
>>> On 15-Aug-2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote:
>>>> Clearly, developers make a huge contribution,
>>>> nobody is denying this, but to suggest that *only* developers contribute
>>>> and everybody else should therefore just shut up
>>>
>>> I never said everyone else should "just shut up". My point was that
>>> if you aren't contributing in some way, then you shouldn't expect your
>>> complaining to carry much weight. The way to get things done is to do
>>> the work, not just complain and hope that people do something for you.
>>
>> ...or offer money. That carries more weight than complaining. :-)
>>
>> However that doesn't work in all cases. This I am reasonably confident
>> is one of them. But as a general rule...
>
> No, it would work in this case, but I hesitate to name my price since
> it will surely make me sound even more evil.
>
> cgf
And that would be a bad thing because .... ?
cheers,
DaveK
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