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On Mar 30 09:33, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 30 March 2007 08:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > On Mar 30 00:59, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> >> Dear Phil Betts et al,
> >> 
> >> Thank you for the humourous "soapbox" lecture.  I do recognize the
> >> sentiment and I'm all for improving the world as much as the next
> >> guy.  I do my bit volunteering for Debian.  When it comes to windows,
> >> however, I just want to get my work done.
> >> 
> >> To answer your question, "can the Crestron-installed cygwin be
> >> eliminated"?  I don't know, but I wouldn't count on it.
> 
>   I would!
> 
> >> As for taking it up with the vendor, that is precisely my aim.
> 
>   I'd be ready to work around their setup if it's the quickest solution to
> your problems.
> 
> > They should not ship cygwin at all, but instead just provide the
> > setup.exe tool to install a standard Cygwin distro from the net.
> > 
> > Btw., do they provide the source codes for the Cygwin DLL and their
> > tools?
> 
> 
>   ... because rebuilding their tools from source into your standard cygwin
> install is probably quite a good bet...

I was actually referring to the licensing implications...


Corinna

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