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Olivier Langlois wrote:
>> Just for the records: My design goals for Cygwin
>> are that it works fine as a POSIX environment, not that it works fine
>> to run DOS tools.  That's a nice side-effect at best.
> 
> It seems to me that Cygwin design goals have changed recently otherwise
> if offering a POSIX environment while coexisting nicely with DOS tools
> was not one of the legacy Cygwin design goal, how comes this
> feature/behavior has been included for so many years in Cygwin? How
> about backward compatibility as a design goal? Backward compatibility is
> a nice design goal, you know.

FLOSS is not known for keeping backward compatibility particularly high 
in their list of design goals. :-)

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