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Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:02:08 -0400
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From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: plz answer these questions about Cygwin
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At 11:27 AM 7/1/2005, you wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 08:01:50AM +0000, Syed Noor Ali wrote:
>>objective of cygwin?
>
>  First do no harm.
>
>>goals of cygwin?
>
>  1.  Cygwin may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a
>  human being to come to harm.
>
>  2. Cygwin must obey orders given it by human beings except where such
>  orders would conflict with the First Law.
>
>  3.  Cygwin protect its own existence as long as such protection does not
>  conflict with the First or Second Law.
>
>>result?
>
>  Cygwin was measured to be both a particle and a wave as well as a dessert
>  topping and a floor wax.
>
>>concludion ?
>
>  You can't always get what you want
>  But if you try sometimes well you might find
>  You get what you need
>
>  Unless you need speed
>
>>achievement of cygwin?
>
>  Libertine software and scarlet hippos and ragtime
>  Shameless meanness that'll grab your son, your daughter
>  into the arms of a jungle animal instinct- massteria!
>

Hm.  Now that I know this, I guess I have no need to visit cygwin.com 
anymore.  I wonder why an entire web site is required when Cygwin can 
be so succinctly described? ;-)


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