Re: irritating forum

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:05:37AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Feb 14 01:22, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 05:52:21AM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >> http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=291923
>> >
>> >I went and opened a polite dialogue with them.  Somebody do remind me
>> >to check back in a day or so, or I might forget.
>> >
>> >[ I might have launched a full-out nuclear flame war instead, but
>> >they've blocked bugmenot, so I decided to play nice :) ]
>> 
>> Thanks for responding.  I started to respond myself but lost interest
>> when I saw that I had to register.
>> 
>> The things that google alerts finds about cygwin are really rather
>> discouraging.  So much disinformation.
>
>If you're looking too closely you will find all sorts of discouraging
>disinformation in the net, about Linux, about Windows, about file
>sharing, about, FWIW, boot polish.  Even about hippos sometimes.

No, Cygwin really is in a special class.  The misinformation about
Cygwin can contain misinformation about Windows, Linux, and Cygwin
itself.  I believe that the ratio of good information to bad information
for Cygwin is rather low compared to many other systems.

cgf