From: rminnich AT sarnoff DOT com (Ron G. Minnich)
Subject: Re: philosophy question
5 Nov 1997 07:04:43 -0800
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To: Steven Bellenot <sfb AT entropy DOT math DOT fsu DOT edu>
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On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Steven Bellenot wrote:
> I see three directions gnuwin32 could/should go:
> 1. Providing Unix based tools that are usable in win32. How a person
> can live without a reasonable shell, diff, grep and friends ...
> 2. Provide a development environment for the translation of the
> vast freeware of unix to win32.
> 3. Make an environment as nearly unix-like as possible.

i don't see a conflict. My goal is simple: to take as much control as
possible of NT away from microsoft and into the free software community,
so that on those rare cases when I have to use NT, I don't use their
miserable tools, their expensive software, or depend on their unreliable
SDKs. "Embrace and extend". gnu-win32 is a step toward that end. In the 
limit, we boot an NT kernel and run only gnu tools on top. Now that would be 
fun. 

ron
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