X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 11:04:39 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "Please don't discuss other, competing products here" Message-ID: <20060523150439.GC9036@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20060522140033.GA17013@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <005d01c67e0b$4b22a6e0$1e10a8c0@holgerdanske.local> <20060523080414.GF13907@ns1.anodized.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060523080414.GF13907@ns1.anodized.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:04:15AM -0700, clayne@anodized.com wrote: >On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 06:50:38PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: >> 3. Last but not least, the open-source software (OSS) movement used to >> have at its core the concept of "Freedom", including "Freedom of >> Speech". OSS projects were simply assumed by the OSS community to >> allow freedom of speech (within reason); those that did not invited >> protest and/or rejection. > >I too, do not see the issue with discussing 'competing' products here. >What's the issue? The OP posted the description of this mailing list but he skipped the first sentence: "a high volume list for discussion of just about all things related to the Cygwin community release." Discussions of how SFU deals with newlines or how U/WIN works with ActiveState perl do not have anything to do with the community release. As I've previously stated, I don't mind restrained comparisons on the order of "U/WIN allows chmod to work on FAT32 partitions could Cygwin use the same technique?" Relation of experiences with U/WIN or other products both postive and negative are off-topic here. As Dave Korn indicated, I set up the cygwin-talk list for this kind of thing. The only downside to using that forum is that sometime you have to share your computer with a flatulant hippo. That seems like a small price to pay. cgf -- 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/