From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1796 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2006 15:30:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 1735 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jun 2006 15:30:01 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-248-179-97.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (71.248.179.97) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:29:58 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 3DEDA13C020; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:29:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:30:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: GDB Ctrl-C Interrupt Fails WORKAROUND Message-ID: <20060616152957.GA12919@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List References: <00fe01c6914d$fcb6b720$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00fe01c6914d$fcb6b720$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00417.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 03:05:56PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >On 15 June 2006 22:29, Charli Li wrote: >>>>For example, build the loopdll.dll and runloop.exe from the following >>>>sources using the gcc and m$ compilers as indicated: >>> >>>Isn't the m'$' compiler you're using actually free? If so, the dollar >>>sign appears to be misplaced. >> >>Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition is free; all other editions are not. >>The only thing us Cygwin users use from MSVC++8 is cl. > >Wrong kind of free, though. It's free as in beer, not free as in >"here's the sources". Still the continued use of the '$' in Microsoft's name has gotten sort of old. Is it supposed to be funny? It can't possibly be funny since it's been used 8,397,423,921 times in usenet and in mailing lists. Is it supposed to be a condemnation of the fact that a corporation is in it for the money? Well, duh. Is it supposed to be a political commentary about the evilness of Microsoft? Sorry, but I don't see the "$" as a mark of the devil. I guess it's part of our usenet culture now but, like so many repetitive trends on the CygWin board, I'm sick of it. It seems to me, that the philsophy of CygWin should allow tolerance for all people and all corporations. Isn't CygWin supposed to promote peach, love, and umbrella stands? I am a long time CygWin user and I think that, if CygWin is to truly evolve, it should move beyond Microsoft platforms and possibly even consider running directly on LinUX rather than emulating it. Think about it. Then we could run rpm natively and use real inodes. It wouldn't loop endlessly when installing Windows Service Packs because there would be *no* windows service packs to install! It would be straight LinUX all of the way! I don't have time to implement this myself because I have to pee really bad right now but I think this deserves quite a bit of discussion. I think that you should all explain why this is a bad idea to me repeatedly so that I can feel important while I continue to remind you that I have to pee and can't do anything other than send email and make the same points over and over again. What is wrong with this scenario? Are you all just cowards? Is that why you haven't already implemented my insightful plan? Also, I think if Cygwin is truly to survive, it should not be encumbered by the GDL. You should not need a driver's license to use software! I've been programming for 47 years and it is ridiculous to force this on users. cgf