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   Jonathan de Boyne Pollard to All   
   Re: Whither FreePM?   
   28 Jan 11 13:34:09   
   
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   .os2.programmer.misc:1862   
   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   >>>>> I don't think anyone have done anything to that code since. It is    
   >>>>> available as all osFree code is, on http://osfree.sf.net   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> That's what I suspected: It's dead and barely even a skeleton    
   >>>> outline. That's unfortunate. I was hoping that that would provide    
   >>>> something useful.   
   >>>>   
   >>> Why?!   
   >>>   
   >> Because I wanted to use it.   
   >>   
   >>> Why would anyone expect things to be implementable by a tiny team of    
   >>> volunteers I fail to grasp...   
   >>>   
   >> In quite a few cases they *are* implementable.   
   >>   
   > Given that I do not know you are "they" and what are "cases", I can't    
   > comment on that.   
   >   
      
   Next you'll be telling us that you don't know what you meant when you    
   yourself wrote "things", the clear antecedent of the pronoun "they".   
      
   > Either you have PM, or not - I do not see a point in implementing a    
   > subsystem (but maybe I'm missing something?).   
   >   
      
   Well you are missing the fairly basic point that if it isn't    
   implemented, it doesn't exist and cannot be used.  Whereas if someone    
   implements it, it does exist and can be used.   
      
      
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