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Date:      Mon, 07 Aug 2000 21:03:52 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        fjrm@yahoo.com (Francisco Reyes), chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: www.tucows.com messed up with BSD link
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In-Reply-To: <200008072337.QAA07470@usr06.primenet.com>
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At 05:37 PM 8/7/2000, Terry Lambert wrote:

>Heh.
>
>I remember when I found a grevious bug in their C library,
>worked dilligently to create a fix, and then told them I
>would trade the fix for a T-shirt.
>
>They didn't want to part with the T-shirt, so I didn't part
>with the fix; it cost me significantly more than a T-shirt
>worth of time to fix the frigging thing...

This sounds like the more recent Borland. The original
Borland wasn't that way; they accepted my patches to
Turbo Pascal gratefully. But they got huffy after a few
years, and stopped listening to developers unless those
developers said what they already expected to hear.

--Brett



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