On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 06:35, Greg Stein wrote:
hehe... it's probably because I sympathize. Back in '96, when I went to work for Microsoft, I caught some heat from some random guy in the Python community. When Guido replied with, effectively, "oh, shut the hell up. Greg's contributed more to the Python community than you have (I don't even know who you are), so you have no standing to harsh on him." Okay, maybe not that quote, but close enough :-)
Jeez! What next? Microsoft secretly funding Apache development? Putting code in it? (Admit it, it was you!) Or worse [cross heart, hope to die] Linux?
Actually, Microsoft have secretly funded Apache development. I'm just not very good at keeping that kind of secret. :-)