On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 08:22:50PM -0600, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 07:17:47PM -0600, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>>Igor Peshansky wrote: >>>>Open-source works by scratching your itch, not by getting someone >>>>else to scratch it for you. >>>Actually getting someone else to scratch that itch sometimes does work! >>Right! And, the perfect way to have the itch scratched is to claim >>that you know better than everyone else, imply that people don't care >>about the end-user experience, assert that you won't even bother >>submitting a patch because it would be automatically rejected for no >>good reason, rail about flaws in open source, ignore patient attempts >>to explain how things work, and never give up in the face of logical >>arguments, relying instead on repeating all of the above ad infinitum. >> >>This technique is, apparently, a sure-fire way to get someone to do >>something for you. We're just still in the ad infinitum stage. As soon >>as that stage is over, someone will surely get to work on this crucial >>patch. > >I was being funny (and I did have a smiley though I don't see it in the >quote). You are apparently being sarcastic.
Maybe you weren't paying attention to this whole thread? That's the only thing I can conclude if you somehow took offense at my "sarcasm" which any discerning reader should be able to detect as not directed at you. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/