Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3DB95879.8020807@goingware.com> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:43:05 -0400 From: "Michael D. Crawford" Organization: GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020622 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: no dice yet on .net server? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A while back I wrote an opinion piece about how OS vendors to developers a disservice by getting them to write their apps to platform-specific APIs: Freeing the Developer from OS Vendor Shackles http://zoolib.sourceforge.net/doc/why.html I think the posix subsystem in NT was originally meant to qualify Windows for government procurement. It's for much the same reason that Apple developed A/UX. But now that lots of people in the government are using Windows, they're using Win32 apps and not running stuff in posix anymore. So I guess those regulations seem to have fallen by the wayside. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ crawford@goingware.com Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/