Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3CBB77FF.60509@jguk.org> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:01:51 +0900 From: "J. Grant" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020227 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GNU/Windows References: <3CBA5348.5030805@jguk.org> <20020415043615.GA1007@redhat.com> <3CBAB7EB.3090801@jguk.org> <20020415152605.GC6372@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hello cgf, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:22:19PM +0900, J. Grant wrote: > >>The idea was from a conversation I had with some co-workers, not >>entirely seriously but thank you for your reply setting the facts >>straight. >> > > So, sending this email RMS was a joke, then? Are you guys personal > friends who enjoy a good laugh? Or did you just forge the header? I don't forge headers, and "not entirely seriously" != "just for a laugh". If GNU tools are installed on a Microsoft Windows machine why should they not get credit? why should Cygnus not get credit either? It was mearly a sugestion, you seem to have taken it out of context. >>Windows has been established as a reasonable generic word IMO, with the >>Lindows case this was hinted at reciently. >> > > You're aware of what the term "arguably" means, right? Well this email seems to be degenerating now, but "Windows" can mean more than a MS OS as that is the most common meaning, X Windows is one. I agree with what Chis Tooley said in his email though, he seems to have recieved a copy of the email as well, or did you just forge the header? JG -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/