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Re: FW: A regrettable oversight
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:59:05AM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Which spirit where which what was intended how? I was trying to say
>> "We're Just Nice"!
>
>Too late. Schrodinger's cat is out of the bag. And it stinks.
Hmm. I thought I smelled something but then, at the same time, I thought
I didn't.
cgf