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Date:      Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:11:55 -0800
From:      Devin Butterfield <dbutter@wireless.net>
To:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Cc:        Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>, =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5rten=20Wikstr=F6m?= <Marten.Wikstrom@framfab.se>, "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Routing latency
Message-ID:  <01031918115500.51096@dbm.wireless.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010319193604.Q61859@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>
References:  <5.0.0.25.0.20010319191312.03fd65d0@mail.etinc.com> <5.0.0.25.0.20010319194401.040862b0@mail.etinc.com> <20010319193604.Q61859@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>

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On Monday 19 March 2001  4:36, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 07:46:53PM -0500, Dennis wrote:
> > I never got an answer (as usual) from bill paul when I made the
> > suggestions, and noone seemed interested in getting it fixed. He seems to
> > get insulted when I infer that he did something wrong.
>
> It's like they say: "money talks".  Similarly, "patches talk".
> Suggestions don't really do that.

I'm not defending Dennis here, but this statement infers that nothing gets 
done unless maintainers are

a) paid

or 

b) someone else does the work for them.

I certainly hope this is not the case.
--
Regards, Devin.

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