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Re: Removing the hippo


On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:28:26AM -0600, Aaron Humphrey wrote:
>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 something 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?"

Exactly.


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