Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <008401be5e87$f1dcd510$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "DJ Delorie" , "Paul Sokolovsky" Cc: "cygwin" Subject: Re: Cygwin participation threshold Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:22:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0810.800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0810.800 > >> Hopefully, that's what you wanted - to give people a nice tool, > >I think it would be more accurate to replace "give" with "share with". > >As a bit of history, Cygnus had a purely business reason to create >cygwin. Doing so let us host our tools on 95/NT platforms, which >meant more customers (i.e. more money). AFAIK, releasing cygwin to >the net had two reasons: the first philosophical, in that we like to >share; and the second practical, in that the more people using cygwin >the more paid support contracts we'll get. What about third party products. For example PGI Workstation comes bundle with Cygwin. It uses better commercial compilers and one has a choice to use GCC/G77 or PGCC/PG77/PGF90 etc. Who gets the *paid support* in that case? I am just a bit curious! Regards Suhaib -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com