Christopher Faylor wrote: > Please don't discuss other, competing products here.
Looking at: http://cygwin.com/lists.html I see the paragraph: Finally, make sure when you send a message to a Cygwin list that it actually has something to do with Cygwin. ... I agree with a policy that posters need to respect the limited time and resources of the Cygwin project and of their fellow mailing list users. But, I do think discussion of competing "GNU tools on Windows" on the Cygwin mailing lists is both relevant and beneficial to the Cygwin project: 1. Knowing what the "other guys" are doing and what "real users" think about Cygwin and the competition is valuable information -- it represents free "marketing study data" and "feature wish lists" for Cygwin developers and free "product comparisons" and "real-life experiences" for Cygwin users and prospective Cygwin users. 2. Seeding the Cygwin mailing lists with keywords from competing products will result in search engine hits that may win over converts. 3. Last but not least, the open-source software (OSS) movement used to have at its core the concept of "Freedom", including "Freedom of Speech". OSS projects were simply assumed by the OSS community to allow freedom of speech (within reason); those that did not invited protest and/or rejection. David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/