That reminds me of the "paying forward" concept. I think I first saw that mentioned on BIX (the Byte Information eXchange - the BBS that Byte magazine ran) back in the mid-late 80s, and I remember it being originally attributed to Robert A. Heinlen (the SF author).

Having used a ton of free software over the years (starting with gcc in 1989) I feel it's only natural for me to try to be thankful for all that by helping others in areas where I have expertise, and publishing a few perl modules that others will hopefully find useful :-)

Still - I guess a special thanks is due to Larry - because without him we wouldn't be here!

Michael

In reply to Re: Re: Giving Thanks by mpeppler
in thread Giving Thanks by dws

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