From: a3o1 AT ugrad DOT cs DOT ubc DOT ca (Philip Paul K. Denno) Subject: Re: philosophy question 7 Nov 1997 14:10:43 -0800 Message-ID: <346386D5.41C6.cygnus.gnu-win32@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> References: <19971106200925 DOT 9056 DOT qmail AT koeln3 DOT pop DOT metronet DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: geklein AT metronet DOT de Cc: raucd AT sk DOT sympatico DOT ca, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Georg Klein wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 17:06:42 -0600 > > From: Darren Rauckman > > Reply-to: raucd AT sk DOT sympatico DOT ca > > To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > > Subject: Re: philosophy question > > > > 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. > > > > That is the best thing I have heard in a long time. DOWN WITH > > MICROSOFT!! > > > > Hi, > > to me, there remains one simple question: why booting an NT-Kernel > and work with gnu-tools, when you van have that much better: use, for > example, linux, use FreeBSD and you have alle the gnu-tools you want > without using a Microsoft OS! > > Georg > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". Not everything about Microsoft OS (NT that is, not Nightmare95) is bad, so to have a UNIX like shell on top provides the best of both worlds. Also just for variety throw Linux on your system and life couldn't be better. Philip. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".