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Re: "Hyperthreading" problems
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:16:52 -0500
- Subject: Re: "Hyperthreading" problems
- References: <41D1D2B2.4030200@exalead.com> <41D1DEA4.1080304@exalead.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:31:00PM +0100, Stephane Donze wrote:
>I am sorry to have to say that, but your message is a very good example
>of the fundamental difference between a project that is useable and
>reliable, and a project that "almost works" and will never do more that
>that.
>
>[snip]
>
>If you guys want cygwin to be used by real people, in real life
>production or development environments, you should go a bit further than
>"I don't have the problem on my computer, so fix it yourself". If you
>don't want to or are not able to pay attention to "real world" bugs,
>cygwin will probably never be more than an "almost working" program
>that runs on your computer the time to take nice screenshots, but fails
>miserably when users try to make it work in the real life.
You know, if you'd just waited *a week*, you probably could have laid
claim to being the first posting of this type in 2005 rather than
(hopefully) the last of 2004. I think that being first is usually much
more auspicious.
So close...
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