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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:14:08 -0500
To: Paul Sokolovsky <paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua>, Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re[2]: [ANN] PW32 the (alternative) Posix-over-Win32 layer
  0.3.0 released
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At 02:16 PM 3/13/00, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>Hello Earnie,
>
>Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>
>EB> --- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> >> Hmm.  I would like to receive opinions on whether people consider this
> >> announcement to be off-topic.
> >>
>
>EB> I would consider it off-topic for this list unless the core of the product uses
>EB> Cygwin.  Announcements of products using Cygwin should be considered on topic,
>EB> IMO.
>
>     Thanks, Earnie. It seems that Free Software really have problems,
>and vendor patents are not the biggest of them. Remember one of the
>latest Freshmeat editorials where Linux community was compared with
>guys kicking each other. Lack of generalization...
>
>      But I write this not to release funny thought (nor to be killed
>off from list), but to ask you, as cygwin veteran (as well as other
>authorities) whether following will be appropriate.
>
>       I'm going to benchmark as many POSIX implementations as I will
>be able to put my hands on (this will ammount to very-very little, and
>generally I'd prefer someone else to do this, but I'm afraid noone will
>bother). Cygwin will be included. So, will results (with appropriate
>disclaimer and links to tests sources) be interesting for cygwin
>community/appropriate for cygwin mailing list?
>
>
>EB> ---
>EB>    Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
>
>--
>Paul Sokolovsky, IT Specialist
>http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=11135



Personally, I think posting comparative data is useful to this list...



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