From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12934 invoked by alias); 5 May 2010 17:05:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 12889 invoked by uid 22791); 5 May 2010 17:05:30 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_CG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from simon.codemeta.com (HELO simon.codemeta.com) (199.125.75.14) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 May 2010 17:05:23 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-66-31-207-108.hsd1.nh.comcast.net [66.31.207.108]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by simon.codemeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2BE708F7 for ; Wed, 5 May 2010 13:05:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4BE1A550.8030703@veritech.com> Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 17:05:00 -0000 From: "Lee D. Rothstein" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Computer magazine CHIP asks for permission to distribute "cygwin" on its cover-cd References: <20100504161042.GN1845@calimero.vinschen.de> <5ci0u5thuhcia4r9a76aks1b3bsl5061k8@4ax.com> <20100504163914.GO1845@calimero.vinschen.de> <4BE056B9.7020105@etr-usa.com> <4BE07503.50907@veritech.com> <20100504200601.GA14387@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20100504200601.GA14387@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-q2/txt/msg00032.txt.bz2 >> 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