From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Morris To: Christopher Faylor Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Cygwin participation threshold Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 08:55:00 -0000 Message-id: <199902261655.LAA19028@brocade.nexen.com> In-reply-to: < 19990224154034.E26668@cygnus.com > References: <199902241855.NAA16459@brocade.nexen.com> <19990224154034.E26668@cygnus.com> <19990224154034.E26668@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-02/msg00892.html In all this discussion something important is being lost. Cris bemoaned the lack of development support for cygwin and asked for reasons. I and others tried to explain where we think the issues are. Inevitably this comes out sounding negative, but at least on my part, this is not intended. Maybe we took Cris' questions too literally. Flogging Cygnus was not the intent. We were trying to offer legitimate feedback to a legitimate question. Let me reiterate that Cygnus is clearly one of the Good Guys. The best guys are the Cygnus employees (like Cris) who volunteer their own time to this project. Many of us are rooting for Cygnus and are hoping more companies figure out how to make money on free software; because they then tend to give back. As an example gcc and gdb have been in much better shape all these years since Cygnus became the official release site. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Morris To: Christopher Faylor Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Cygwin participation threshold Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <199902261655.LAA19028@brocade.nexen.com> References: <199902241855.NAA16459@brocade.nexen.com> <19990224154034.E26668@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-02n/msg00892.html Message-ID: <19990228230200.GUv_q1-_VD_gKW5-9CmZ9-iY9bS1bFilht1sNhZJjTk@z> In all this discussion something important is being lost. Cris bemoaned the lack of development support for cygwin and asked for reasons. I and others tried to explain where we think the issues are. Inevitably this comes out sounding negative, but at least on my part, this is not intended. Maybe we took Cris' questions too literally. Flogging Cygnus was not the intent. We were trying to offer legitimate feedback to a legitimate question. Let me reiterate that Cygnus is clearly one of the Good Guys. The best guys are the Cygnus employees (like Cris) who volunteer their own time to this project. Many of us are rooting for Cygnus and are hoping more companies figure out how to make money on free software; because they then tend to give back. As an example gcc and gdb have been in much better shape all these years since Cygnus became the official release site. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com