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Re: Removing the hippo


On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:24:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>Mike Marchywka wrote on 06 October 2008 16:09:
>>
>>>> OCX is fairly far from the core goals of Cygwin.
>>>
>>> Everything is about wierd graphics download. That hippo would look better
>>> as a 32bit BMP animated even better, charging into the linux penguin.
>>> Otherwise my CPU is just
>>> wasted, and what good is VM unless that disk drive is thrashing about.
>>> LOL.
>>
>>cgf error: Needs more coffee.
>
> No, I was thinking that with the PCYMTNQREAIYR that it was possible that
> the OP would actually think that OCX documentation was needed and didn't
> want to let the assertion go by.  But I was really thinking about the
> children.  They love to read archives and might think that OCX
> documentation was really somthing that Cygwin needed.

Yes, there's nothing worse to hear from my eight-year-old son than the words
"Daddy?  Why doesn't Cygwin have OCX documentation?"  Except perhaps
"Daddy, what is that mean hippo doing to that nice penguin?"

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