From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "DJ Delorie" , "Paul Sokolovsky" Cc: "cygwin" Subject: Re: Cygwin participation threshold Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <008401be5e87$f1dcd510$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> X-SW-Source: 1999-02n/msg00698.html Message-ID: <19990228230200.hqmf_de35kwB6Hs77BCCZQjZwGwSp4CInYqwAvAQKXY@z> > >> 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