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Re[2]: Cygwin participation threshold
- To: Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re[2]: Cygwin participation threshold
- From: Paul Sokolovsky <paul-ml@is.lg.ua>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:52:33 +0200
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Hello Christopher,
Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
>> By the way, if you haven't answered that yet, changing name from
>>gnu-win32 to cygwin has your motivation or FSF's?
CF> I wasn't around for all of the naming decisions but I think that the
CF> decision was entirely Cygnus's. Maybe if Geoff is still reading the
CF> list he can elaborate. It would be interesting to see if contributions
CF> slacked off after the original name change.
I don't think that name is really matters, "gnu-win32" was good
for the first time (I don't remember how I get acquainted with cygwin
but probably by asking Yahoo about "gnu win32"). It's your goodwill to
release it, so that name may be used for whole bunch of stuff. I think
about win32 as platform, gnu-win32 as its target and cygwin, mingw32,
probably others as specific subtargets.
CF> In case it wasn't obvious, the 32 was dropped from cygwin32 to avoid
CF> potential trademark infringement with some company whose name currently
CF> escapes me.
Aah, I really didn't understand why those digits dropped ;-)
CF> cgf
Best regards,
Paul mailto:paul-ml@is.lg.ua
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