Le Vendredi 11 Janvier 2002 18:04, Charles Wilson a écrit : > It's not windows that has no future -- it's the level of participation > of people who want rpm that will trend to zero.
I also noticed it when working on the Windows PostgreSQL administration interface called pgAdmin (http://pgadmin.postgresql.org). There are 2000 to 4000 downloads a day, but we are only three contributors. This makes a lot of work for us... We asked for help and got not one single reply. On the converse, some guy announced the release of a pre-pre-pre beta version of some Gnome application doing basically the same thing. The day after he had 20 contributors. Cygwin case is in the middle : people are trying to bring Windows to the Linux and Unix paradize. This is hard. Believe me, the problem is not with personal involvement. There are 300.000 Linux developpers and somehow 80.000 Linux ongoing projects. Noone can stop this storm. This is because Linux users have a sence of commitment and believe in Freedom. What Windows user see is just " OK, it's free, so I wron't need to pay ". Linux user look at the same thing and say " Whoo, fantastic, This Is Freedom ". I will contact you off-the-list to explain this Php project. It is big and interesting... Best regards, Jean-Michel -- 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/
