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Date:	Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:58:58 -0400
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:03:46AM -0700, Wynfield Henman wrote:
> In my humble opinion cygwin should be open to improvement and, we
>should keep cygwin's purpose as a base system, which is as full, and
>as easy, and as close to a *nix environment as possible.

And the wonder of open source is that you don't have to just offer
opinions.  You can actually offer changes which implement your brilliant
ideas.

cgf

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