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Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> writes:

>the code, go for it.  However, my experience is that what he was saying
>resonates with "I'm going in to fix this problem so I can get back to
>work on my real project".  And that is almost always wrong.  If the
>problem was that bloody simple don't you think the original author of
>the code would have fixed it already?  It's almost never as simple as a

BS. In 99% of the cases you fix the problem because the original
author has abandoned the code or does no longer care about it.

Ask me about it. Once upon a time, I just wanted to use a Web
Framework [1] for a project.  Now I'm one of the main developers of
it. Not because I wanted to be but out of pure necessity.

	Regards
		Henning

[1] Jakarta Turbine. http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/

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