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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: cygwin without Win32
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:36:03 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor

> I guess I'll keep making the observation that any poll would 
> be worthless as long as people seem to be ignoring that fact 
> and still coming up with alternate ways of polling.

  AFAIC the discussion has long since left behind any pretence of real-world
relevance and become a purely academic oh-I-wonder kind of thing about what
the actual balance of NT series vs. 9x series cygwin users.

> We are not dropping support for older Windows systems.

  Nothing I have said should be taken as condoning that option in any way.
Hell, dropping support for 9x is the sort of low-down dirty thing that only
someone like... oh, say, Microsoft... would consider doing...


    cheers, 
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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