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-Originating-IP: [203.29.131.4] X-Originating-Email: [arashp@hotmail.com] X-Sender: arashp@hotmail.com From: "Arash Partow" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Unable to compile cygwin Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 21:54:43 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Dec 2003 21:54:44.0005 (UTC) FILETIME=[35586D50:01C3C8D6] X-IsSubscribed: yes proving a negative is much harder than proving a positive... Arash Partow >On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:15:34AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: >Jim Ramsay wrote: >>Ha! Ask that boss to prove to you that there is no security problem >>running Windows on a 'secure' network. > >To a person with that mentality, Bill Gates is implicitly trustworthy >(i.e. if he says it's true, it must be true by definition, because >it's a "big company that stands by its products"), while anything Open >Source is written by h4x0rs and thus must "prove its trustworthiness". > >How, you ask them? They don't know, but you'd better "know". No point >arguing with them.. > >Proving the trustworthiness of any important system is never a waste of >time. > > >cgf _________________________________________________________________ Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/default.asp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/