hi,

"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > I cannot see how to construe that ("sense of entitlement") from
> > my initial rant; it wasn't motivated by vengefulness, nor have I asked for
> > preferential treatment.
>
> This is a pivotal point, and forms the crux of much of the misunderstandings
> that occur.
>
> ...
> So when people actively maintain a piece of software for 25+ years - looking
> from the outside to be doing all of the things that a software company typically
> does - one expects them to be doing those things.   Not in an entitled sense -
> but just in a general, natural, wholly predictable "this is the way I expected
> it to be" sense.

> ...

just so.

and it raises the question, in my mind, what if any benefit is there in the ..
tangential arguments, and eventual recriminations.


regards, jr.

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