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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Big Brother is Real Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:15:20 -0800 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3E8C5E18.9090507@Salira.com> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030401082203.02e42c30@pop3.cris.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20030401095832.028ac2d8@pop3.cris.com> <3E8C4B24.9040007@jhuapl.edu> <200304031528.h33FSFIj611818@pimout3-ext.prodigy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ru, zh Tim Prince wrote: > Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows > XP64, but it seems Microsoft would rather lose out to linux and HPUX > than let their customers run cygwin. It may be they don't understand > how many customers depend on cygwin, which is their fault too, since > they don't support those customers, just collect the fees and forget them. How exactly does Microsoft stop their customers from running Cygwin? I'm curious because as you even admit "many customers depend on cygwin" so it is demonstrable that Microsoft has no power to stop their customers from running Cygwin. -- 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/