A regrettable oversight
Igor Peshansky
pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Fri Dec 15 14:57:00 GMT 2006
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, 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:
> >>>
> >>>"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
Ed, Ed, Ed... Are you spoofing CGF's email address again? :-)
Igor
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