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Re: Negative
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:20:13 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Negative
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> Rodrigo de Salvo Braz writes:
>
> > The point would be to bring this to the attention of the people
> > being negative. By seeing that not just one person feels like that,
> > people may decide to stop and think whether their ways are
> > constructive. Hopefully this would effect a change for the better.
>
> Unlikely. Dozens of people have pointed it out over the years,
> politely, rudely, coherently, agrammatically...
>
> But the Cygwin developers really do not care. They (and let's face
> it, "they" is mostly cgf) think that working on free software is a
> license to be a total jerk. No amount of feedback of any kind is
> going to change this.
>
> It does make it hard to stop reading the mailing list, though, much
> like picking at a scab or watching a train wreck in slow motion.
HAHA!
New slogan: "Cygwin: join for the tools, stay for the mailing list!" :-D
Igor
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