Cygwin participation threshold

Wed Feb 24 13:13:00 GMT 1999

Hello Christopher,
Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
CF> But, of course, maybe none of these observations matter. We're talking
CF> about perceptions, here. It's my contention that if the EGCS project
CF> had been named 'cyg-gcc' that it probably wouldn't have as large a base
CF> of contributors. It's probably the initial 'cyg' which is off putting
CF> to people as well as the technical barrier of having to know both UNIX
CF> and Windows code.
 By the way, if you haven't answered that yet, changing name from
gnu-win32 to cygwin has your motivation or FSF's?
CF> cgf
Best regards,
 Paul mailto:paul-ml@is.lg.ua
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