From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
To: "DJ Delorie" <dj@envy.delorie.com>, "Paul Sokolovsky" <paul-ml@is.lg.ua>
Cc: "cygwin" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin participation threshold
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <008401be5e87$f1dcd510$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990228230200.hqmf_de35kwB6Hs77BCCZQjZwGwSp4CInYqwAvAQKXY@z> (raw)
>
>> Hopefully, that's what you wanted - to give people a nice tool,
>
>I think it would be more accurate to replace "give" with "share with".
>
>As a bit of history, Cygnus had a purely business reason to create
>cygwin. Doing so let us host our tools on 95/NT platforms, which
>meant more customers (i.e. more money). AFAIK, releasing cygwin to
>the net had two reasons: the first philosophical, in that we like to
>share; and the second practical, in that the more people using cygwin
>the more paid support contracts we'll get.
What about third party products. For example PGI Workstation comes
bundle with
Cygwin. It uses better commercial compilers and one has a choice to use
GCC/G77
or PGCC/PG77/PGF90 etc. Who gets the *paid support* in that case?
I am just a bit curious!
Regards
Suhaib
--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com
next reply other threads:[~1999-02-28 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-22 9:10 Suhaib M. Siddiqi [this message]
[not found] ` < 008401be5e87$f1dcd510$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com >
1999-02-22 11:38 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-02-28 16:22 Christopher G. Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher G. Faylor
1999-02-26 0:26 Bernard Dautrevaux
[not found] ` < 8135911A809AD211AF6300A02480D175034922@iis000.microdata.fr >
1999-02-26 8:40 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Bernard Dautrevaux
1999-02-25 10:24 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] ` < 004c01be60ee$09a84c20$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com >
1999-02-25 10:36 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-02-25 10:09 Bernard Dautrevaux
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Bernard Dautrevaux
1999-02-24 13:43 Ken Thompson
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Ken Thompson
1999-02-24 10:55 Steve Morris
[not found] ` < 199902241855.NAA16459@brocade.nexen.com >
1999-02-24 12:40 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-24 13:13 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
[not found] ` < 2965.990224@is.lg.ua >
1999-02-24 13:21 ` Christopher Faylor
[not found] ` < 19990224162212.A27405@cygnus.com >
1999-02-25 22:51 ` Geoffrey Noer
[not found] ` < 19990225225149.A1388@cygnus.com >
1999-02-26 7:26 ` Larry Hall
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Larry Hall
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Geoffrey Noer
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
[not found] ` < 19990224154034.E26668@cygnus.com >
1999-02-24 13:50 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-26 8:27 ` Steve Morris
[not found] ` < 199902261627.LAA18993@brocade.nexen.com >
1999-02-27 7:49 ` Todd Goodman
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Todd Goodman
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Steve Morris
1999-02-26 8:55 ` Steve Morris
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Steve Morris
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-24 12:46 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
[not found] ` < 15947.990224@is.lg.ua >
1999-02-24 13:28 ` Christopher Faylor
[not found] ` < 19990224162911.A27461@cygnus.com >
1999-02-24 14:16 ` Mumit Khan
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Mumit Khan
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Steve Morris
1999-02-22 20:54 Tom St Denis
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Tom St Denis
1999-02-22 13:00 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-02-19 6:36 Cygwin B20 - fseek under gcc fails to reposition on text files Christopher Faylor
1999-02-22 3:26 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
[not found] ` < 13561.990222@is.lg.ua >
1999-02-22 8:55 ` Cygwin participation threshold DJ Delorie
[not found] ` < 199902221654.LAA07362@envy.delorie.com >
1999-02-22 10:33 ` Carl Zmola
[not found] ` < 19990222183222023.AAA254@carl_zmola >
1999-02-22 11:21 ` Fergus Henderson
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Fergus Henderson
1999-02-22 12:32 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-24 0:08 ` Christopher Faylor
[not found] ` < 19990223214848.A23525@cygnus.com >
1999-02-24 5:51 ` Fergus Henderson
[not found] ` < 19990225005148.53402@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU >
1999-02-24 9:18 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-24 19:23 ` Weiqi Gao
[not found] ` < 36D4C298.32C1C355@a.crl.com >
1999-02-25 0:23 ` Fergus Henderson
1999-02-25 6:01 ` Weiqi Gao
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Weiqi Gao
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Fergus Henderson
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Weiqi Gao
[not found] ` < 19990224121846.A25762@cygnus.com >
1999-02-25 0:14 ` Fergus Henderson
[not found] ` < 19990225191420.16813@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU >
1999-02-25 1:00 ` Lam Pui Yuen
[not found] ` < Pine.BSI.3.95.990225170005.16688A-100000@topaz.hknet.com >
1999-02-25 1:09 ` Lam Pui Yuen
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Lam Pui Yuen
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Lam Pui Yuen
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Fergus Henderson
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Fergus Henderson
1999-02-24 10:37 ` Carl Zmola
[not found] ` < 19990224183738302.AAA218@carl_zmola >
1999-02-24 10:44 ` Christopher Faylor
[not found] ` < 19990224134450.B26262@cygnus.com >
1999-02-24 10:48 ` Carl Zmola
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Carl Zmola
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Carl Zmola
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Carl Zmola
1999-02-28 23:02 ` DJ Delorie
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='008401be5e87$f1dcd510$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com' \
--to=ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com \
--cc=cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com \
--cc=dj@envy.delorie.com \
--cc=paul-ml@is.lg.ua \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).