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Re: Cygwin participation threshold
- To: "DJ Delorie" <dj@envy.delorie.com>, "Paul Sokolovsky" <paul-ml@is.lg.ua>
- Subject: Re: Cygwin participation threshold
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:22:34 -0500
- Cc: "cygwin" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
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>
>> Hopefully, that's what you wanted - to give people a nice tool,
>
>I think it would be more accurate to replace "give" with "share with".
>
>As a bit of history, Cygnus had a purely business reason to create
>cygwin. Doing so let us host our tools on 95/NT platforms, which
>meant more customers (i.e. more money). AFAIK, releasing cygwin to
>the net had two reasons: the first philosophical, in that we like to
>share; and the second practical, in that the more people using cygwin
>the more paid support contracts we'll get.
What about third party products. For example PGI Workstation comes
bundle with
Cygwin. It uses better commercial compilers and one has a choice to use
GCC/G77
or PGCC/PG77/PGF90 etc. Who gets the *paid support* in that case?
I am just a bit curious!
Regards
Suhaib
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