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At Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:51:30 -0500,
Linas Vepstas wrote:
> If you've got good code, you'll just need to be persistent.

While I agree with most of Matt's rant, I think Linas is right as well.
Hearing that code is already in a distribution like Gentoo makes it
easier to make the case that the code doesn't suck or is vaporware.

-bri
disclaimer: a PhD student working outside my specialty :)