From: mellon@fugue.com (Ted Lemon) Subject: Re: Cygnus Cygwin32 Press Release 1/21/97 10 Feb 1997 18:12:44 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199702102213.OAA00787.cygnus.gnu-win32@andare.fugue.com> Original-To: Sergey Okhapkin Original-cc: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Keith Gary Boyce'" In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 Feb 1997 13:35:57 +0300." <01BC1757.59ED0370@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com > The main effort in gnu-win32 design made by Cygnus. Moreover, Cygnus plans > to make money only if someone wants to use gnu-win32 for _commercial_ > software. Yup. I guess I have trouble understanding why anybody would get upset about what Cygnus is doing - you are free to write your own free Cygwin32 DLL, and frankly, it wouldn't even be all that hard if you started from the FSF libraries or the NetBSD libraries. Furthermore, you have the benefit of hindsight, which the implementors of Cygwin32 did not have, so what you come up with would probably benefit from that. _MelloN_ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".