To backup Stephans statement it would be in Microsoft's interest to support 32/64 bit Cygwin. By supporting Cygwin Microsoft would increase and not decrease the installed base of Windows. Back to the fray- Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 5:20 PM Subject: Re: RE: Big Brother is Real
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:16:14PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:12:24PM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote: > >>Speaking only for myself, and not my employer (because I don't know what > >>he thinks) I can only say that from everyone I've met, and everything I > >>do know, it appears to me that API changes are always made with > >>backwards compatibility in mind, and the goal is never to break existing > >>apps -- indeed, the efforts made to remain compatible with existing apps > >>are astounding. > > > >Given how stupid tricks that were developed on Windows NT3.5 (or > >earlier) continue to work on Windows 95, Windows 98, W2K, Windows NT4.0, > >and Windows XP. I think I can testify to that effort. > > ...and by stupid tricks, I mean stupid tricks used in cygwin, of course... > > cgf > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
