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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:57:45 -0500
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On 2/9/2011 5:28 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote:
> Which is why I asked my question. It seems so completely obvious to me,
> that I can't understand that someone with a formal education in the
> field wouldn't know about it.

It works in the other direction too, you know. In a different
message RB was complaining about how he has to provide installers
for his compiler because his customers demand it. But it seems so
completely obvious to me that this is how software packages are
provided that I find it astonishing that anyone in the business
of selling software would feel put upon to do so.