[rescue] Has freshmeat.net disappeared forever?

[Richard]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.1406241809300.23921 at zephyr.cacm.org>,
    "Carl R. Friend" <crfriend at rcn.com> writes:

>     That sums it up perfectly.  Few developers bother to think about
> compatibility and portability any longer and prefer to code to their
> own little world-view.

I think it has always been this way.  It's no different now than it
used to be in the late 80s/early 90s with a bunch of different unix
systems that were all just different enough from each other to piss
you off, but not superior enough from each other to make it worth the
hassle.
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