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-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:30:47 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Andrew DeFaria cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Big Brother is Real In-Reply-To: <3E8C5E18.9090507@Salira.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > 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. Microsoft doesn't "stop their customers from running Cygwin", it introduces API changes that are incompatible with previous versions, and thus cause programs like Cygwin to not run. Whether this is deliberate or accidental remains debatable. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. -- 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/