Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <19990225005148.53402@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:51:48 +1100 From: Fergus Henderson To: Christopher Faylor Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Cygwin participation threshold References: <13561.990222@is.lg.ua> <199902221654.LAA07362@envy.delorie.com> <19990222183222023.AAA254@carl_zmola> <19990223214848.A23525@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <19990223214848.A23525@cygnus.com>; from Christopher Faylor on Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 09:48:48PM -0500 On 23-Feb-1999, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 1999, Carl Zmola wrote: > > > >The fact that a company is in charge of > >coordinating the efforts has an effect. > > > >In the past the main reason I didn't even investigate contributing is : > >Because of the feeling that contributions are unwanted, and that someone > >else is making money of of my work. > > > >After a little investigation, I found that these wern't valid concerns, but > >they are a first line of resistance. > > It is interesting that you felt this way at first. I wonder if the reason > has anything to do with the name "Cygwin" which sounds so similar to "Cygnus". > > The reason I am saying this is because hundreds of people have contributed to > the linux project and *many* companies make money from linux. Yes, but you can write and distribute proprietry applications or even proprietry kernel modules for Linux without paying anyone a license fee. The same is not true for Cygwin (although it *was* true once, back around version b16, when it was called gnu-win32). -- Fergus Henderson | "Binaries may die WWW: | but source code lives forever" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- leaked Microsoft memo. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com