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Re: philosophy question
- To: Steven Bellenot <sfb at entropy dot math dot fsu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: philosophy question
- From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich at sarnoff dot com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 08:54:07 -0500 (EST)
- cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Steven Bellenot wrote:
> I see three directions gnuwin32 could/should go:
> 1. Providing Unix based tools that are usable in win32. How a person
> can live without a reasonable shell, diff, grep and friends ...
> 2. Provide a development environment for the translation of the
> vast freeware of unix to win32.
> 3. Make an environment as nearly unix-like as possible.
i don't see a conflict. My goal is simple: to take as much control as
possible of NT away from microsoft and into the free software community,
so that on those rare cases when I have to use NT, I don't use their
miserable tools, their expensive software, or depend on their unreliable
SDKs. "Embrace and extend". gnu-win32 is a step toward that end. In the
limit, we boot an NT kernel and run only gnu tools on top. Now that would be
fun.
ron
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