Sender:	crough45 AT amc DOT de
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Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 1997 18:00:34 +0100
From:	Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Cc:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Thanks

On Thu, 27 Mar, DJ Delorie wrote:

> I don't think anyone makes a living by working on djgpp.  I thought
> about it a few times, but there are a lot of "haftas" involved - I'd
> hafta charge for it, hafta support it, hafta buy health insurance (no
> job, no benefits), etc.  Thus, I have a Real Job also.

Too true :-(  It would be nice to work on something I really cared
about and be paid for it.  (Actually, there's an 'again' after that,
it did manage it once...)

> Besides, if my life depended on it, it wouldn't be as much fun :-)

Definitely true.  I have friends who have gone from being amateur
musicians to professional, and they all say that they've lost 
something, because they 'hafta' do it.  ('Amateur' means that you
do it because you love it; I really hate the modern usage of it
to mean "not as good"...)

BTW, it all installed "out of the box" (OK, I had to figure out how 
to get a zip file of 1.7M onto a 1.44M floppy!).  And I love the way
all of the utilities unzip into the right directories, with all the
manifests together etc.  Something some of the professional designers
could learn from...

Chris

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