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Re: A regrettable oversight


I have to chime in here;
Originally, I became curious about Linux BECAUSE of Cygwin.
As I experimented more and more with Cygwin, I became really impressed
with how it was able to support quite a lot of Linux apps at the source
level will relatively little trouble. The trouble and care the Cygwin
developers have gone to to emulate a real *nix environment on something
as backwards as Windows is truly amazing. A feat hidden from view, like
all great software engineering, of course, but tremendous nonetheless.

Of course digging around *nix via Cygwin ends up being so interesting
that you end up thinking things like "Why is Windows so retarded?" and
eventually the pull of Linux becomes irresistable.

So I eventually switched to Linux, again, because of Cygwin.
I think that that might even be one if Cygwin's unstated goals.

Thank you, devs.

J
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 09:48 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> If Cygwin can't adapt to Microsoft innovation then maybe we should all
> either be moving to Linux or MinGW.



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