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Subject:	Re: Re: Big Brother is Real
From:	"Timothy C Prince" <tprince AT myrealbox DOT com>
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Date:	Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:22:13 +0000
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-----Original Message-----
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 07:34:20 -0800
Subject: Re: Big Brother is Real

Tim,

At 07:28 2003-04-03, you wrote:
>...
>
>Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows 
>XP64, but it seems Microsoft would rather lose out to linux and HPUX 
>than let their customers run cygwin.  It may be they don't understand 
>how many customers depend on cygwin, which is their fault too, since 
>they don't support those customers, just collect the fees and forget them.


"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company."
  -- Lily Tomlin
__________________________________________
They may care.  I doubt their chances of overtaking linux-ia64 or making back their investment in XP64 this year are overwhelming.
Tim Prince

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