From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin participation threshold
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990224162212.A27405@cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990228230200.yt637QoELOQ5yooD4UzjixfeiwWbdHj10L8SEGHxGxs@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2965.990224@is.lg.ua>
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 11:10:20PM +0200, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
>CF> But, of course, maybe none of these observations matter. We're talking
>CF> about perceptions, here. It's my contention that if the EGCS project
>CF> had been named 'cyg-gcc' that it probably wouldn't have as large a base
>CF> of contributors. It's probably the initial 'cyg' which is off putting
>CF> to people as well as the technical barrier of having to know both UNIX
>CF> and Windows code.
>
> By the way, if you haven't answered that yet, changing name from
>gnu-win32 to cygwin has your motivation or FSF's?
I wasn't around for all of the naming decisions but I think that the
decision was entirely Cygnus's. Maybe if Geoff is still reading the
list he can elaborate. It would be interesting to see if contributions
slacked off after the original name change.
We have kicked around other names from time to time but, personally,
given the amount of trouble caused by the transition from cygwin32 ->
cygwin, I don't think I want to change the product name again soon.
In case it wasn't obvious, the 32 was dropped from cygwin32 to avoid
potential trademark infringement with some company whose name currently
escapes me.
cgf
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Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
[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
1999-02-26 2:55 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Paul Sokolovsky
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
[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
1999-02-26 1:21 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Paul Sokolovsky
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Steve Morris
-- 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$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com >
1999-02-25 10:36 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-02-25 10:09 Bernard Dautrevaux
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Bernard Dautrevaux
1999-02-24 13:43 Ken Thompson
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Ken Thompson
1999-02-22 20:54 Tom St Denis
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Tom St Denis
1999-02-22 13:00 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-02-22 9:10 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] ` < 008401be5e87$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
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
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