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On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:43:49PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: >Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>Pavel Tsekov wrote: >>I'm certain that if I took some time I could do it but I don't have the >>time to do it. IOW it would take me perhaps months to do because the >>added time to get to know all the stuff I'd need to know before >>actually coding anything of the fix. Whereas people who have already >>worked on setup.exe would not have such start up costs and could >>implement this in weeks if not days. >> >>It's amazing to me how people can't see this! > >We can. However, we too have significant shortages of free time. And, different agendas as well. No one in free software has to work on things that they don't want to work on. And, the theory that "You know how to do it. You're doing all this other stuff, why don't you do this too?" doesn't really sound right to me. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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