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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:48:12 -0500
From: Jason Dufair <jase@dufair.org>
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Subject: Re: setup.exe is too small
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>
>
>I can't agree.  Take it in context with what was written.  The "fix it
>yourself" response was in response to a somewhat rude request that a
>problem be fixed.  It had words like "For the love of open source"
>"what is the hold up?" and "I'm dying here".
>
>I don't think newbie should necessarily mean clueless and demanding
>but that is how the original post came across to me.
>
>Remember, we are giving you gifts.  Cygwin is a gift.  The response to a
>gift is "Thank you" not "Yeah, yeah.  Now I want more, when's it
>coming?"
>
>We're human, too.  When someone seems demanding after having been given
>a gift it tends to rub us the wrong way.
>
>cgf
>
Since you are often the voice for us lurkers and occasional patch 
contributors, thank you, Christopher, for a well put and well reasoned 
response that sums up the whole thread.

-- 
Jason Dufair - jase@dufair.org
http://www.dufair.org/
"Traveler on the bridge
Awakens to find
It's not the river that flows
But the bridge that moves o'er"
-- Bruce Cockburn


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