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From: Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Why did you guys break  EVERYTHING...
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 20:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CC0E15F.8070901@ece.gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6440EA1A6AA1D5118C6900902745938E0514F1DE@black.eng.netapp.com>

Schwartz, Barry wrote:

> I'm sure you won't put this in the "intelligent" question genre but...
> I've been using cygwin for years and I brag about it and make all my teammates install it and make my managers refuse to piss away money on MKS...
> Well, I think that party's over.  I just installed the new distribution and every one (and I mean EVERY GODDAMN ONE) of my scripts that call any of your routines that need to know what a host or a directory are f#$king broke.  What in god's name is "/usr/local/bin" on a windows machine?  Why don't you UNIX weeneies get a grip.  F#$king fix it.  It used to be great.  Now I can't even change a directory.
> I've gone back to your old, unsupported code until we can find the money to equip our team with MKS for $400 a throw.  Thanks for making a great product unusable.


BTW, did it occur to anyone that the rapid and multiple responses to 
this email -- which, given its tone and lack of specific content 
qualifies as a troll by any objective measure -- serve to ENCOURAGE this 
sort of insistent, badgering, and rude behavior?

I mean, geez -- it worked, didn't it?  The guy IS getting his answers -- 
and very rapidly...  In behavioral science, we call this "positive 
reinforcement of aberrent behavior".

--Chuck


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-20  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-19 16:06 Schwartz, Barry
2002-04-19 17:00 ` Chris Ellsworth
2002-04-19 18:38 ` Elizabeth Barham
2002-04-19 20:36 ` Charles Wilson [this message]
2002-04-22  7:44   ` Scott Evans
2002-04-22  7:59     ` Christopher Faylor
2002-04-22  9:44       ` Michael A Chase
2002-04-22  9:53         ` Michael A Chase
2002-04-22 23:06     ` Gary R. Van Sickle
2002-04-19 16:23 Robert Collins
     [not found] <6440EA1A6AA1D5118C6900902745938E0514F1DE@black.eng.netapp. com>
2002-04-19 18:59 ` Roland Glenn McIntosh
2002-04-19 19:35 Schwartz, Barry
2002-04-19 20:38 ` wayne
2002-04-19 20:02 Robert Collins
2002-04-19 20:30 ` Charles Wilson
2002-04-19 20:53   ` Charles Wilson
2002-04-20 10:51 Joshua Daniel Franklin
2002-04-20 14:28 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2002-04-23  0:17   ` Daan Hoogland
2002-04-23  1:57     ` Corinna Vinschen
2002-04-23  2:43       ` Daan Hoogland
2002-04-23  3:33       ` Daan Hoogland
2002-04-22 13:26 Heribert Dahms
2002-04-22 15:32 Robert Collins

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