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From: "Martin" <mgainty AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: RE: Big Brother is Real
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:03:04 -0700
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To backup Stephans statement it would be in Microsoft's interest to support
32/64 bit Cygwin.
By supporting Cygwin Microsoft would increase and not decrease the installed
base of Windows.
Back to the fray-
Martin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: RE: Big Brother is Real


> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:16:14PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:12:24PM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> >>Speaking only for myself, and not my employer (because I don't know what
> >>he thinks) I can only say that from everyone I've met, and everything I
> >>do know, it appears to me that API changes are always made with
> >>backwards compatibility in mind, and the goal is never to break existing
> >>apps -- indeed, the efforts made to remain compatible with existing apps
> >>are astounding.
> >
> >Given how stupid tricks that were developed on Windows NT3.5 (or
> >earlier) continue to work on Windows 95, Windows 98, W2K, Windows NT4.0,
> >and Windows XP.  I think I can testify to that effort.
>
> ...and by stupid tricks, I mean stupid tricks used in cygwin, of course...
>
> cgf
>
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