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Re: spotting cygwin ml trends
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:11:04 +0200
- Subject: Re: spotting cygwin ml trends
- References: <20060713170140.GA6736@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <e96200$o5f$1@sea.gmane.org>
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On Jul 13 13:04, mwoehlke wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >It seems like this type of email is on the rise:
> >
> >"<some program in the cygwin distribution> is <describe strange behavior>
> >since I last updated Cygwin."
> >
> ><send several messages expressing confusion and consternation>
> >
> >"Oh, I found the problem. I had previously done <describe unusual and
> >hard-to-forget thing>. When I reverted that, things started working
> >fine."
> >
> >I wonder if that's a sign of anything. It might mean that there is an
> >increase in people/organizations using cygwin and they are including
> >stupid instructions to work around real or imagined problems.
>
> There is *NEVER* a shortage of stupid people doing stupid things. :-)
Wait, doesn't that mean stupidity is the perfect perpetuum mobile? Wow,
finally endless energy for everybody! Unfortunately the engineers are
too stupid to get it working...
Corinna