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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> On 01/07/2010 06:53 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> On 01/07/2010 07:32 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>> I listen to podcasts a lot and one that I listen to is FLOSS Weekly. 
>>> It's about Open Source and hosted by Randall Schwartz. They do 
>>> episodes about various open source projects from Ardour to ZFS. I 
>>> think that it would be great for Cygwin to be featured on FLOSS 
>>> Weekly and I've emailed Randall and tried to get him to add Cygwin 
>>> but would really help is if Christopher or Corinna (or both) would 
>>> contact Randall (merlyn at stonehenge.com) and express an interest.
>>>
>>> How about it? Should Cygwin get on FLOSS Weekly?
>> Sorry for the double post. I didn't think the first one took...
> The silence is deafening?!?! Will nobody comment on this?
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	I think the bottom line is that the the core cygwin
developers are good at their jobs because they are strongly technically oriented and, *usually*, people focusing all their energy on their craft don't have time to be "social".  Thus they are not inclined to have a desire to engage in such a venture.

	But this is just my impression.  Besides, what would they say "cygwin is great, use it, we'd love you to use it, but patches will be more appreciated?", it really isn't their public style(well the last part might be :-)...  but that's just my uninformed 2 cents.

	You wanted an answer....  I've never met any of the cygwin developers in RL, and can't really speak for any of them.

Linda







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