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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 18:58:38 +0300
From: egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
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To: "Rolf Campbell" <rcampbell AT tropicnetworks DOT com>
CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, "Barry Buchbinder" <bbuchbinder AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin official logo ?
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Hi!

Friday, 29 November, 2002 Rolf Campbell rcampbell AT tropicnetworks DOT com wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: egor duda [mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru] 
>> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 9:59 AM
>> To: Barry Buchbinder
>> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>> Subject: Re: Cygwin official logo ?
>> 
>> 
>> BB> How about a penguin looking through a window?
>> 
>> It'd be clearly misleading. Cygwin is not Linux for Windows. 
>> We have enough confusion already with people thinking otherwise.
>> 

RC> That is true, but Cygwin does make it easier to compile Linux programs
RC> under windows.  (maybe replace "Linux" with "POSIX", but the most
RC> popular POSIX OS in Linux) [maybe replace "popular" with "well known]

And explosives do make it easier to do mining. Does it mean that
miner's emblem should be a dynamite with a burning fuse?

_We_ know that cygwin just makes it easier to port unix programs to
windows. But people who are just curious about "what the heck this cygwin
thingie is?" will see the logo and get the impression that it just
some kind of linux to be run on windows.

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19


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