Re: cygwin-xfree

[Stan Shebs <shebs@shebs.cnchost.com>]

Jason Molenda wrote:
> 
> 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,

Not true!  Don't you remember when we got the fan mail sent into
info@cygnus, telling us how great GNU was and how we Cygnites were
doing God's work?  Alas, it wasn't one of the paying customers...

> 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.

For those who need to work on this, allow me to recommend the power
of the nag.  These days, managers are so interrupt-driven that the
one-time mail message gets lost in the noise.  Nagging serves the
dual purposes of regular reminder and effective increase in priority;
keeping the issue "paged in", as it were.  Once a week is good, daily
is usually too much, monthly is too sparse.  Be sure the nag includes
specific activities with dollars and dates, otherwise it degenerates
into whining, which is useless.

Stan