> No one is getting paid, Unfortunately, the attitude, once established here, nearly inevitably spreads to other situations, even exactly those of paid "support". It would be nice to be able to nuke it in all assigned to paid support, to automatically force everybody manifesting it to go back to unpaid occupations, with free / open source software or other. Unfortunately, no way to ensure that is known.
> expend the effort to do so This tries to represent things as if some terrible effort is required. Generally it is not so. Instead, it requires much less work than writing the voluminous, useless (and hurting - to some, not me) reply that started the thread. For exactly the same reason: it is inherent ability of humans. > way things work Or, more often, do not work. > you learned a lot more than Acceptable only with `:-)': again, learning about tool internals (let alone misfeatures or even bugs) is not desirable at best. Agree that, personally, normally would have checked more before posting. Why it was unacceptable to do that in that particular time with that particular issue is improper here. My point is that users getting in such situations are inevitable time after time, and that such a behavior of users should be allowed, "handled gracefully" (as many RFC say). _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
