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Subject: Re: Cygwin instabilities
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> These two things are related. Remember that Cygwin is an open source

Sure it is related, but that doesn't answer my question.

> Who would keep counters of stable or instable setups? These number are
> exceptionally hard to come by. Even if this list is now flooded with "my
> setup works" and "mine too" posts, these numbers would not be

No that is not the way to go. I think there are people which run
Cygwin on more than 1 machine, so they have a personal estimation and
experience.

> representative. Users may have given up on Cygwin due to instabilities
> without notifying the list. Others may run Cygwin so happily they never

Right. Similar I can't report the bugs for people telling me, they
don't use Cygwin, because of stability issues they encountered in the
past.

Al

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