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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:27:03 -0400
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Subject: RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
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On 15-Aug-2006, Dave Korn wrote:

| On 14 August 2006 23:51, John W. Eaton wrote:
| 
| > Or am I missing something?
| 
|   The increasingly obvious fact that the aforementioned people have no
| intention of actually *doing* anything, and seem to want to do nothing except
| complain and tell others what they ought to be doing, rather than actually
| getting something done?

Oh yeah, I started writing that paragraph but then deleted it since it
seemed to be so much stating the obvious that I even recognized it as
beating the mummified horse.  I mean, isn't free software all about
getting something for nothing, then complaining about it and expecting
others to do yet more gratis work for you?

jwe

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