Re: Bogus hostname forcing in RedHat source RPMS

["Stephen C. Biggs" <s_c_biggs at bigfoot dot com>]

On 18 Dec 2000, at 20:28, Evan McLean wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 18:36:25 -0800, Stephen C. Biggs wrote:
> >Why can't cygwin be Unix??
> 
> How much windows programming have you done?  :-)

Not enough to know better, and too much to ever feel clean again ;-)
> 
> Perhaps the statement "Cygwin is not Unix" could be more accurately 
> expanded to "Cygwin is a close to a Unix-like environment that is possible 
> under Microsoft Windows, but no more so."
> 
> As a reasonably seasoned programmer on both, I find the Cygwin developers' 
> (of which I am not one) success in inveigling windows rather impressive.
> 
> (Not to mention their patience on the mailing lists, which I personally 
> find remarkably impressive.)
> 
> And if that is not enough, consider the following quote (source unknown):
> 
> "You can't let people get away with shoddy service.  It starts with 
> overcooked meat and ends with Microsoft."
> 
> E. (Trying to help put things in perspective.)
> 
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