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Sheridan, David wrote:

> After receiving this abuse from list members, I'm unlikely to 
> contribute anything further to cygwin, and will not report further 
> bugs. If this is the behaviour the cygwin developers wish to 
> encourage, you need to do nothing further. If you think it's a shame, 
> please encourage the list members to read up on advocacy. This is 
> exactly the reason that open source is having a
> hard time being adopted widely by the commercial world.

It's no secret that people here seem to like to claim to be mean. In 
fact they made up an acronym for it (WJM - We're Just Mean). Why should 
this be any different?

(Don't know if I should include a smiley or not...)



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