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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Proving Correctness (was Java Portability)
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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

> Asking someone to volunteer to make a library in his spare time and
> make it available everywhere freely and never offer any compensation
> to him is going to require that we find either a saint or a fool.

Why do you think so?  Perhaps the problem tackled by the library is
interesting and challenging.  Some people climb mountains in their
free time, some write free software libraries.  I don't think these
two things are so much different.

OTOH, coding all the day and coming home just to code more stuff is a
bit sick. ;-)