From: alexandr AT hawk DOT pearson DOT udel DOT edu (Jerry Alexandratos) Subject: cygwin.dll comments 14 Feb 1997 08:38:50 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199702140511.VAA07932.cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com> Reply-To: alexandr AT hawk DOT pearson DOT udel DOT edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Content-ID: <5447 DOT 855897059 DOT 1 AT hawk DOT pearson DOT udel DOT edu> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Sorry to keep adding to this, but I just felt like I had to say something. First, I applaud Cygnus for their decission. Now before everyone jumps all over me, please let me explain myself. First, I always prefer software that's free (being a student does that), and that I have source code for. In a perfect world, that would always be the case. Unfortunately, as the proliferation of Microsoft shows, we don't live in a perfect world. Now, I have two part-time jobs. The first is for the university I attend. Hey, an educational institution--we're the definition of free software. My other part-time job is for a commercial company. Granted whatever we work on is usually for us. But some of the stuff we develop we sell to other departments. Some things we would prefer to keep to ourselves (the company's big on secrets). My boss is hesitant to allow us to use GNU stuff even if that's what others and myself are the most comfortable with. I think many companies feel this way. My ideal is to one day be able to work on one platform and compile for another (the true beauty of gcc) no matter where I'm working. Speaking of which, Cygnus, you could stand to improve your FreeBSD support--Linux isn't the only free UNIX out there. 8) Anyway, I'd prefer to pay to not be able to release source and use tools that I find more robust. This attitude can only help the entire gcc/gnu/fsf/cygnus effort. Right now, the real world wants nothing to do with it. Let people pay for the privilege of using the tools that the rest use for free. Unfortunately, there is something to be said for commercial credibility. --Jerry 8) Jerry Alexandratos % "Nothing inhabits my (8 8) darkstar AT strauss DOT udel DOT edu % thoughts, and oblivion (8 8) darkstar AT canary DOT pearson DOT udel DOT edu % drives my desires." (8 - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".