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Re: FW: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81


On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>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.
>
>And that would be a bad thing because ....  ?

I'm still getting used to being evil.  I have to take it one step at a
time.  I still have some small vestiges of humanity left and am not
quite ready to be viewed as diabolical yet.

cgf

Btw, it's $2000.


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