If you guys want cygwin to be used by real people, in real life
production or development environments, you should go a bit further
than "I don't have the problem on my computer, so fix it yourself".
If you don't want to or are not able to pay attention to "real
world" bugs, cygwin will probably never be more than an "almost
working" program that runs on your computer the time to take nice
screenshots, but fails miserably when users try to make it work in
the real life.
<rant>
I think you really really really need to reevaluate what you say
before you hit send.
The open source/free software developers that I communicate with/work
with wrote the stuff they did because they needed an
application/library/script for a specific need, and decided to release
the software to the public in the hope that someone else might find it
useful, and the hope that other people might contribute back.
What you consider 'real people' is obviously not the same type of
people I consider 'real people'. I consider these 'real people' to be
the individuals who are on this list, who work on the project, and who
actively contribute to the project. You may use Cygwin, but until you
start actively contributing to it, and helping the developers fix the
bugs and such, you have no right to complain.
I may not be an active contributor to Cygwin, but I do work alot with
other OSS projects, and they get this same type of response from
people too, and frankly, I'm sick of it.
</rant>