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FW: A regrettable oversight


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"!


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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