Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: "Carl Zmola" To: DJ Delorie Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:30:59 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Cygwin participation threshold Reply-to: zmola@campbellsci.com CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com In-reply-to: <199902221654.LAA07362@envy.delorie.com> References: <13561.990222@is.lg.ua> (message from Paul Sokolovsky on Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:28:16 +0200) Message-ID: <19990222183222023.AAA254@carl_zmola> > DJGPP has a much higher threshold (it's much more complicated), but > there are far more people contributing to djgpp than to cygwin. If > anyone can figure out *why*, let us know! ;-) I think it's social - > djgpp contributors just know that they'll get a friendly reception to > their contributions, good or bad, so they aren't as hesitant to send > stuff in. That could be part of it. The fact that a company is in charge of coordinating the efforts has an effect. In the past the main reason I didn't even investigate contributing is : Because of the feeling that contributions are unwanted, and that someone else is making money of of my work. After a little investigation, I found that these wern't valid concerns, but they are a first line of resistance. Carl zmola@campbellsci.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com