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Re: FW: A regrettable oversight
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:59:05 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: FW: A regrettable oversight
- References: <03aa01c72058$c4fc7a00$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
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On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 15 December 2006 14:49, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:21:38AM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 08:36:28AM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
>
> >>>>> That's good to know. For a moment there I thought we were all going to
> >>>>> have to start saying WJN!
> >>>>
> >>>> "We're Just Nasty"(tm).
> >>>
> >>> Hey, I like it! That can be our new slogan for 2007.
> >>
> >> Yep, just in time for the Vista release... We'll need it, too.
> >
> > Well, so far, it looks like Vista will imply a "CJN" since Corinna seems
> > insistent on punishing people who use Vista by making Cygwin hard to use
> > there despite Microsoft's laudable efforts in making sure that we are
> > all snug and secure.
> >
> > It seems to me that if Cygwin doesn't want to wither up and blow away,
> > someone should be working hard on getting it to work correctly on Vista!
> > I am not a Vista programmer but I really don't understand what all of
> > the fuss is about. Microsoft has released many versions of Windows
> > since Windows 1.0 and they are constantly working on improving their OS.
> > If Cygwin can't adapt to Microsoft innovation then maybe we should all
> > either be moving to Linux or MinGW.
> >
> > I hope this will be accepted in the spirit in which it was intended.
> >
> > cgf
>
> Which spirit where which what was intended how? I was trying to say
> "We're Just Nice"!
Too late. Schrodinger's cat is out of the bag. And it stinks.
Igor
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