Although it's probably a little late to be responding to innuendo, the bare minimum points that need a response;
At 12:36 AM 11/14/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >There was a lot going down 'offline' and things were just >being 'announced' on the forum. That's the way development often happens. Pound on code for a week and present it when it's working. You are reading just a little too much cloak and dagger into things. >What you neglected to mention was that this now-famous >'303 - Second Street - San Francisco' in-person huddle that you >are talking about took place at ( you guessed it ) Covalent >Corporate headquarters. Yup - they hosted it, although had 1/2 the committers been in the same area on the east cost, our friends in Raleigh were happy to open their meeting room. >How long after that meeting was it that they hired you? >You were then ( still? ) in Nebraska, yes? I started consulting for them sometime after that meeting, when Ryan appealed for my help. I joined Covalent that following March. And nope, never NE, I've lived in Chicago most of my life, but for a few year sabbatical in upstate NY. Had never even met any Apache or Covalent folk in person till that meeting. >> I'm proud that I've been a contributor before Covalent <reinsert text snipped for trollbait> >> and will remain ( proud ) even if I find other >> opportunities at some point. </reinsert> >Funny wording. Do you mean you aren't proud to be a >contributor now that you ARE at Covalent? Nope, I mean exactly that, I played with Apache for the heck of it and got alot out of the experience. It reassured me that C is not dead (another parallel discussion that's getting a little silly :-) And I'm equally proud to be part of Covalent, and proud of what Covalent employees have contributed to Apache, and the Apache 2.0 version. Bill And with that minimum response... <ignore class="troll"/>