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On 27/03/2012 7:40 AM, Michael Lutz wrote:
> Am 27.03.2012 10:36 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>> Needless to say that the ultimately most efficient way would be
>> to find a method to avoid rebase problems after fork at all.  The
>> last attempt at it looked promising at first, but then again...
>> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsgeneraldevelopmentissues/thread/afdf1b68-1f3e-47f5-94cf-51e397afe073
> You'd think all the statements about interoperability after the EU
> anti-trust cases would apply to Cygwin as well.
>
> If SUA can, Cygwin should as well: "Microsoft shall ensure that
> third-party software products can interoperate with Microsoft’s Relevant
> Software Products using the same Interoperability Information on an equal
> footing as other Microsoft Software Products. (“Interoperability
> Commitment”)".
> http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/dec09/12-16Statement.mspx
>
> Conveniently, nothing except a press contact is given on that page.
I suspect the EU commission could track down the right people at MS if 
they were to decide that SUA/cygwin interop were important. 
Unfortunately, it would have been much better for that issue to be 
raised (a) while MS was still whimpering from the smackdown and (b) 
before the announcement that SUA will be deprecated in Win8, after being 
essentially unusable for several years before that.

Ryan


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