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


-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher Faylor
>Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:05 AM
>To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List
>Subject: 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.
>

So what?  The hippos do it all the time...
...even on the Hippo Network!

Say what?  Oh, so the hippos made cgf evil!  Gotcha...

Charli


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