Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050701120004.03d2aad8@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:02:08 -0400 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: plz answer these questions about Cygwin In-Reply-To: <20050701152705.GC8600@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> References: <6 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 20050609215603 DOT 06fd02b8 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> <20050701152705 DOT GC8600 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:27 AM 7/1/2005, you wrote: >On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 08:01:50AM +0000, Syed Noor Ali wrote: >>objective of cygwin? > > First do no harm. > >>goals of cygwin? > > 1. Cygwin may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a > human being to come to harm. > > 2. Cygwin must obey orders given it by human beings except where such > orders would conflict with the First Law. > > 3. Cygwin protect its own existence as long as such protection does not > conflict with the First or Second Law. > >>result? > > Cygwin was measured to be both a particle and a wave as well as a dessert > topping and a floor wax. > >>concludion ? > > You can't always get what you want > But if you try sometimes well you might find > You get what you need > > Unless you need speed > >>achievement of cygwin? > > Libertine software and scarlet hippos and ragtime > Shameless meanness that'll grab your son, your daughter > into the arms of a jungle animal instinct- massteria! > Hm. Now that I know this, I guess I have no need to visit cygwin.com anymore. I wonder why an entire web site is required when Cygwin can be so succinctly described? ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/