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Re: About Cygwin 1.0
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: About Cygwin 1.0
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 12:35:18 -0400
- Cc: vpaatero at cc dot hut dot fi
- References: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10105261839010.10889-100000@alpha.hut.fi>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 07:25:00PM +0300, Vesa Pekka Paatero wrote:
>Thank you for the free Cygwin software. One thing I'd like to talk about:
>I was surprised to find no information on your pages (especially FAQ)
>about the reasons why you have not released the stable Cygwin 1.0
>via the net.
> Is it that you want people to use the unstable versions in order
>to hasten the development of future versions (by their bug reports)?
>In the spirit of the Gnu Public Licence, that would seem immoral to me.
>If the public develops the software (under GPL) with their contributions,
>they should also be allowed to enjoy the fruits (and not be constrained to
>keep toiling with bugs when a stable version exists).
> So please, let me know the true reasons why Cygwin 1.0 is not
>distributed on the net.
The reason is simple. We're heartless bastards.
> If people could more readily use stable versions in their developments,
>perhaps Cygwin's reputation would improve (as it pertains to reliability).
Bwa, hah, hah.
cgf
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