On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:33:26PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >I am not understanding why your response was appropriate. The default >port for XDM has nothing to do with Microsoft, unless Microsoft has >decided to use port 177 for one of their products. If that was the >case, then a simple mention that ``Product Foo'' uses port 177 would >have been sufficient, right?
AFAICT, it's the standard Cygwin response #13, issued when someone is confused about the process and wants to make a point by letting everyone know how bad Microsoft is and exhorting all of us not to be that way. In other words, it was a value-free message. Alexander's response was perfectly clear and he didn't need to be taken to task for some imagined attitude. cgf
