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Date: | Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:27:59 -0400 |
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From: | "Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)" <gsw AT agere DOT com> |
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Presumably somebody from RedHat has already contacted the ERightSoft folks for illegally distributing cygwin1.dll & cygz.dll without the source (as part of their SUPER package). However, they also install those files into /WINDOWS/SYSTEM32 *and* mark them both SYSTEM and HIDDEN. This may be the cause of some of the "duplicate cygwin1.dll" errors that have been reported. If you look in their forum pages, the author basically says "Everybody do that--you don't like, you don't use". (What he doesn't say is that uninstalling SUPER leaves your system unable to play many AVI files since cygwin1.dll isn't the only "system" file that the installer blindly copies and/or trashes.) Anyway, I'm not entirely sure why, but SUPER seems to be getting at least some good press, so this is likely to become more of an issue in the future. Is there anything that can be done that would really discourage them? (I suppose a bunch of us could attempt to reason with them, but the author doesn't seem to be a reasonable person.) gsw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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