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On 26/09/2012 2:17 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 02:13:20PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:03:46AM -0700, Wynfield Henman wrote:
>>>> In my humble opinion cygwin should be open to improvement and, we
>>>> should keep cygwin's purpose as a base system, which is as full, and
>>>> as easy, and as close to a *nix environment as possible.
>>> And the wonder of open source is that you don't have to just offer
>>> opinions.  You can actually offer changes which implement your brilliant
>>> ideas.
>> But that makes it like work and you know how we all don't have time to
>> give to open source projects.  It's a wonder any open source project
>> exists with such lack of available time about.  I barely have the time
>> to respond and read to list mail.  Now you expect me to contribute!?
>> Sheesh.  ;p
> Sorry.  Now I feel bad for wasting your time with my email.
Pretty sure he's being sarcastic, though it may be exactly what some 
other folks are thinking...

Ryan


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