From: "Lee D. Rothstein" <l1ee057@veritech.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Computer magazine CHIP asks for permission to distribute "cygwin" on its cover-cd
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 17:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE1A550.8030703@veritech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100504200601.GA14387@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
>> Deferring to Corinna's native language (?), as best I can (my
apologies,
>> in advance):
>> Wie weh tut mein finger.
>> Wie weh tut mein fuss.
>> Wie weh tut mir alles!
>> Wann, die 3PPs "schuss"!?
>> ;-)
>> Having said that, I believe I first found out about Cygwin, years ago,
>> from a CD. Before that I had been a user of MKS, and later Thompson
>> Toolkits.
(The big difference between Thompson and MKS, is that Thompson worked. ;-))
> Was it the dearly lamented Cygwin CD that I fought tooth and nail to have
> Cygnus release? That experience will be in my memoirs some day...
My vague memory is that I was in some hacker bookstore, and they
had a bunch of bargain CDs. I bought several along with one or
two ORA books. One had Cygwin along with some other stuff. Others
included Knoppix, a Perl-only CD, Yggdrasil, and some gawdawful
share- and free-ware.
I was hooked on FLOSS.
> I was supposedly in charge of the project but I'd get email telling me
> that a meeting had been held and everyone had decided not to include
> "perl" in the distribution.
Corporate development. Sigh! (I worked at DEC for a time. If the
"force was with them", that force must have been militant
ignorance ... ;-) )
> Good times...
Do I "detect" a symphony of sarcasm? A note of noxiousness? A
tome of tomatoes, rotten? ;-)
> cgf
Lee
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2010-05-04 17:18 ` Warren Young
2010-05-04 19:27 ` Lee D. Rothstein
2010-05-04 20:06 ` Christopher Faylor
2010-05-05 17:05 ` Lee D. Rothstein [this message]
2010-05-05 17:44 ` Christopher Faylor
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