Re: [PHP4BETA] I hate to do this, but...

I'm not going to contribute any more to this thread, except to say that I did not realize that the package is no longer supported by Zeev - I was not around when he made the announcement, and it doesn't say anything on the mod_auth_mysql web page or in the docs included in the tarball. Had I realized this to be the case, I wouldn't have made such a fuss in the first place. Cynic wrote: > OK, so you write Zeev an email like 'ok, I have an offer > for you, it's big money', but you never get an answer - > the 'd' key was hit. > > At 09:41 1.3.2000 -0500, Peter Kovacs wrote the following: > -------------------------------------------------------------- > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Derek Sivers wrote: > > > Writing the software was their contribution to the world. > > > > > > Doesn't mean they should be now forever burdened with doing tech support. > > > > I think the original poster is right, in that if you write a piece of > > software and distribute it, it's common courtesy to support those who > > use according to your abilities. I still support software I wrote > > several years ago. > > That may be true, but usually when no response is received it usually > means the piece of software is no long supported. The sheer volume of > email that developers receive combined with relatively uninteresting > subject lines dealing with software you no long support lead to a quick > tap of the 'd' key before the message is even opened. > > You get what you pay for. If you really want help, then you might have to > pay for it. Heck if it's for a "big client" make them pay for it. > > Just my 2cents. > Peter > > -------------------------------------------------- > Peter D. Kovacs KnowPost.com LLC > Pb Engineer peter@knowpost.com > -------------------------------------------------- > > -- > PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List <http://www.php.net/version4/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net > > ------end of quote------ > ____________________________________________________________ > Cynic: > > A member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who taught > that virtue constitutes happiness and that self control is > the essential part of virtue. > > <Ï/»Ð+®° > T´›YìIåmailto:cynic@mail.cz>cynic<mailto:cynic@mail.cz>@mail.cz > ICQ: 2808 2505 > > -- > PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List <http://www.php.net/version4/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net -- North Shore Technologies, Cleveland, OH http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net Steve Sobol, President, Chief Website Architect and Janitor sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net - 888.480.4NET - 216.619.2NET