> [1] points to [2] which has this information. > > I don't know how we can make that more obvious. > > [1] https://cygwin.com/install.html#source > [2] https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html >
Although this is quite old, I still wonder what was Jon Turney thinking when he wrote the above cynical/mocking reply. Was he thinking that I was ""very desperate to contribute to an open source project?"" I was offering my time to cygwin, so people should be happy that cygwin got one more volunteer. But it looks like Jon Turney had different thoughts. May be he was thinking that people desperately want to contribute to open source software. But actually that's not the case. There must be around a million developers in this world but there are hardly 10,000 developers contributing to open source projects. So, a big big big majority of developers are not contributing to open source. So, actually, no one is desperate to contribute to open source. And, after this reply of Jon Turney, I also didn't contribute to cygwin because he offended me by his cynical/mocking reply. By the way, I don't think that open source software is great except LINUX KERNEL. But LINUX KERNEL is also great because companies are contributing hardware/device drivers to the linux kernel. If no company had contributed any hardware/device driver then probably LINUX wouldn't have existed today or probably would have gone the MINIX way (used for education). So, the real stuff gets done in a company and not in open source. Ethernet was invented in Xerox. First handheld mobile phone was invented by Motorola. First smartphone with full web browsing capability was invented by Apple. So, actually all inventions and innovations in the software/hardware industry happened in companies and not in open source. So, no one in open source should think that they are doing something really great. By the way, I had contributed a few patches to the linux kernel a long time ago and they were not at all cynical. I had also written a HOWTO and the TLDP people were very helpful (and they were not cynical) and when my HOWTO got published by TLDP, it became a homework assignment in the computer science department of many colleges in the world. But even then I didn't become cynical of anyone and I didn't mock anyone. I have interacted with quite a few other open source developers from other open source projects and my opinion is that a majority of open source developers think like a frog in a well (A frog in a well thinks that the well is the world and nothing exists outside of the well). ChatGPT was developed by a company (OpenAI). Llama (AI) was also developed by a company (Meta). So, real stuff happens in a company and not in open source so open source people should not think that they are the greatest people around. Unix and C were also invented in a company (Bell System/Bell Labs). ---- -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
