Re: cygwin-xfree

[Jason Molenda <jason-swarelist@molenda.com>]

On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 09:12:14PM -0700, Bob Manson wrote:

> He was no kindly king.  He was the Ruler of Evil!  Evil, I tell you!
> I quaked in fear whenver he typed!  

It's true, it's all true.  Cygnus is actually a training ground
for Evil, and after half a dozen years, I had been well trained in
the Insufficient Light Side by my master, Stan Shebs, as were the
other disciples.  As I write this, we are all moving into the
Silicon Valley power structure and we will soon issue our demands
for <pinkie>one MILLION dollars</pinkie> or we'll bring SV to its
knees.

Evil is a lost art these days, and it behooves all of us to live
it every day.  I got a copy of that "ILOVEYOU" worm.  Its evilness
is so pathetic -- the author showed no pride in workmanship, no true
commitment to evil (Oooh, it overwrites your mp3 files, so destructive.)
Pathetic!



On a slightly serious note, it was the easiest path for me to take
to decide and implement (nearly) everything on the sourceware
system.  It was helpful for really rapid deployment.  I think I've
written about this in the past, but, in retrospect, it was a mistake
to not get more buy-in from Cygnus officially at some point.  Back
in the summer of '98 it would have been a huge mistake to get
marketing et al tied in to sourceware.  But the result of doing it
on the side, with managers looking the other way when sourceware
maintainers have to spend time on it, is not very effective.  We
should have (or present tense, should) convinced management to pony
up for a full time person and hooked it into the rest of the
company's organization.


Jason