Computer magazine CHIP asks for permission to distribute "cygwin" on its cover-cd
Lee D. Rothstein
l1ee057@veritech.com
Wed May 5 17:05:00 GMT 2010
>> Deferring to Corinna's native language (?), as best I can (my
apologies,
>> in advance):
>> Wie weh tut mein finger.
>> Wie weh tut mein fuss.
>> Wie weh tut mir alles!
>> Wann, die 3PPs "schuss"!?
>> ;-)
>> Having said that, I believe I first found out about Cygwin, years ago,
>> from a CD. Before that I had been a user of MKS, and later Thompson
>> Toolkits.
(The big difference between Thompson and MKS, is that Thompson worked. ;-))
> Was it the dearly lamented Cygwin CD that I fought tooth and nail to have
> Cygnus release? That experience will be in my memoirs some day...
My vague memory is that I was in some hacker bookstore, and they
had a bunch of bargain CDs. I bought several along with one or
two ORA books. One had Cygwin along with some other stuff. Others
included Knoppix, a Perl-only CD, Yggdrasil, and some gawdawful
share- and free-ware.
I was hooked on FLOSS.
> I was supposedly in charge of the project but I'd get email telling me
> that a meeting had been held and everyone had decided not to include
> "perl" in the distribution.
Corporate development. Sigh! (I worked at DEC for a time. If the
"force was with them", that force must have been militant
ignorance ... ;-) )
> Good times...
Do I "detect" a symphony of sarcasm? A note of noxiousness? A
tome of tomatoes, rotten? ;-)
> cgf
Lee
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