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From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 22:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c9d4a81.1c69fb81.8aab4.1064@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e95db126-2d00-338e-8895-6fddc5eec94b@towo.net>

On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 22:33:48, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> It's a bit strange that you're telling my that *you* don't care about 
> *my* information.
> I'm trying to raise some awareness about privacy on this occasion (which 
> is quite a topic nowadays) and if you don't care, you don't need to comment.

Yeah, he does.

What he has said is exactly right: the problems you are describing will only
be consequential to the maintainer, IE *you*.

As he very correctly put, anyone else building is likely doing so
*for themselves*, hence negating any privacy concern. Unless you are summoning
George Orwell:

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-28 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-16  9:35 Thomas Wolff
2019-03-16 14:01 ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-24 14:51   ` Steven Penny
2019-03-24 15:57   ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-24 16:24     ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-24 18:19     ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-24 23:36       ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-25  8:31         ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-25 18:12         ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-27 20:02           ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-27 20:36             ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-27 21:01               ` Jeffrey Walton
2019-03-27 22:52             ` Steven Penny
2019-03-27 23:09               ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2019-03-28  1:12                 ` Steven Penny
2019-03-28  2:35                   ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2019-03-28  2:44                   ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-28  3:42                     ` Steven Penny
2019-03-28  7:34                       ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 11:36                         ` Steven Penny
2019-03-28 15:09                           ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-28 18:22                           ` Dependancy Hell (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9) Chris Wagner
2019-03-28 17:37                         ` [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9 Achim Gratz
2019-03-27 22:59             ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2019-03-28  7:15               ` Björn Stabel
2019-03-28 17:40                 ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-28 18:08                   ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 18:21                     ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-28 18:32                       ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 19:47                         ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-28 21:38                           ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28  8:43               ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28  9:36                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-28 14:02                 ` Jeffrey Walton
2019-03-28 18:10                   ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 18:16                     ` Vince Rice
2019-03-28 18:33                       ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 18:43                         ` Vince Rice
2019-03-28 21:34                           ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 22:28                             ` Steven Penny [this message]
2019-03-24 21:05     ` Andrey Repin

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