Bogus hostname forcing in RedHat source RPMS
Stephen C. Biggs
s_c_biggs@bigfoot.com
Mon Dec 18 21:10:00 GMT 2000
On 18 Dec 2000, at 20:28, Evan McLean wrote:
>
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 18:36:25 -0800, Stephen C. Biggs wrote:
> >Why can't cygwin be Unix??
>
> How much windows programming have you done? :-)
Not enough to know better, and too much to ever feel clean again ;-)
>
> Perhaps the statement "Cygwin is not Unix" could be more accurately
> expanded to "Cygwin is a close to a Unix-like environment that is possible
> under Microsoft Windows, but no more so."
>
> As a reasonably seasoned programmer on both, I find the Cygwin developers'
> (of which I am not one) success in inveigling windows rather impressive.
>
> (Not to mention their patience on the mailing lists, which I personally
> find remarkably impressive.)
>
> And if that is not enough, consider the following quote (source unknown):
>
> "You can't let people get away with shoddy service. It starts with
> overcooked meat and ends with Microsoft."
>
> E. (Trying to help put things in perspective.)
>
>
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