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<DIV><SPAN class=169290318-27022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hi
Greg,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=169290318-27022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Perhaps the greatest strength of an open source product is the community
that surrounds it and is willing to invest time and effort into improving the
product and its usefulness. This particular issue is a good example - you and
Rudy (and a few other people) have run across a particular issue. You can see
from the ChangeLog that the fix you propose has been tried and found to have a
problem in the general case (even if not in your case). If you and Rudy and
others that have some expertise and motivation can get together and come up with
a better solution, that would exhibit a bit of ownership mentality and show the
community can bring the necessary talent to bear on a problem and fix
it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=169290318-27022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=169290318-27022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Although it is true that Remedy and Riverace and OCI and PrismTech and
others make various levels of their income providing services around these
products, I can tell you that Johnny puts in enormous effort driving ACE (and
TAO) development and maintenance and I'd bet that a good chunk of it is work
he's not being "sponsored" for.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=169290318-27022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=169290318-27022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>ACE's
future is, indeed, bright. It's bright because there's a good mix of user
community and service providers coming together to get the job done, maintain,
and improve things. You can help keep it bright by contributing your time and
expertise in this matter.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=169290318-27022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>-Steve</FONT></SPAN></DIV><!-- Converted from text/plain format -->
<P><FONT size=2>--<BR>Steve Huston, Riverace Corporation<BR>Want to take ACE
training on YOUR schedule?<BR>See <A
href="http://www.riverace.com/training.htm">http://www.riverace.com/training.htm</A><BR></FONT></P>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
ace-bugs-bounces@cse.wustl.edu [mailto:ace-bugs-bounces@cse.wustl.edu] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Greg Popovitch<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 27, 2008
11:37 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Johnny Willemsen; Rudy Pot;
ace-bugs@cs.wustl.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ace-bugs] [ACE_Message_Queue]
notify PIPE blockcausesSelect_Reactor deadlock.<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Johnny,
I didn’t mean any offense. You do confirm my observation with the statement:
“</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">people
don't have time anymore to just fix these kind of issues without funding”. I
am sorry that this is the case, as I really like ACE. But I strongly
feel that if there is not anyone who feels enough sense of ownership to
fix clear bugs like this one, then it is hard to justify using ACE in any
project which doesn’t allocate specific funding for ACE
maintenance.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Now
again that’s fine with me, and I certainly don’t ask anyone to provide a
service for free. However in the light of my own experience (serious bug fixed
in 2002, reintroduced in 2003 and still there in 2008), I tend to disagree
with the statement in ACE’s overview: “</SPAN>ACE continues to improve and its
<A href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/%7Eschmidt/ACE-future.html">future</A> is
bright”.</P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>