From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22454 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2006 15:57:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 22447 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jun 2006 15:57:53 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ACCESS1.CIMS.NYU.EDU (HELO access1.cims.nyu.edu) (128.122.81.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:57:50 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by access1.cims.nyu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5GFvm5L015033 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:57:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:57:00 -0000 From: One Angry User Reply-To: Blaaab Babble Boogle Bop To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: GDB Ctrl-C Interrupt Fails WORKAROUND In-Reply-To: <20060616152957.GA12919@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <00fe01c6914d$fcb6b720$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20060616152957.GA12919@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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/msg00418.txt.bz2 On a sunny Friday, the 16th day of June, 2006, Christopher Faylor's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes: > 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. Surprisingly, that actually sounded like a message from Ed C. Lueless... OAU