cygwin (was: Excessively grandiose product names)

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From: Yossi Kreinin
Subject: cygwin (was: Excessively grandiose product names)
Date: 15:32 on 24 Jan 2007
> Of course if you can work out what the fuck the cygwin installer  (which 
> should probably be the topic of another post) is trying to do  you can 
> just install bash instead.
> 

OK, I'll make it the topic of this post. A collegue of mine have recently 
wandered into the following in his desperate attempts to work out what the fuck 
cygwin is trying to do (from http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html):


Please don't send any questions to the cygwin mailing list to ask questions 
about this page as it seems to provoke them severely. They considered and 
declared the instructions on this page "broken" and "random" but won't 
constructively say what is "broken"; instead some went on launching personal 
attacks. The information here is provided "as is, in good faith" with no 
guarantee it will work. If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work. Don't send any 
questions to the Cygwin mailing list to ask why and provoke them. If you must go 
to Cygwin mailing list to ask, you better completely remove Cygwin before you go 
to the mailing list to ask questions and don't even mention that you have looked 
at this web page (to avoid pissing them off).


P.S. Didn't Microsoft plan to call their "shell of the future" (?) msh? Or did 
they hack up several shells so they can be incompatible to each other for 
compatibility with the tradition of shells?

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