Re: basename(), dirname(), what happened?

2003-09-02 Thread Shankar Unni
Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: (At least there's a big company behind it that has the (legal) responsability for the quality of the program..) ROTFLMAO. What legal responsibility? I hope you have pointed these fine folks to the appropriate sections of the so-called License Agreements (i.e. we

Re: basename(), dirname(), what happened?

2003-09-02 Thread Shankar Unni
But all silliness aside, there's a very good point to the seeming extremes that the Cygwin project in particular, and the FSF in general, go in order to protect the code base by ensuring the true freedom of their sources. I give you the Linux mess, as exhibit #1. -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: basename(), dirname(), what happened?

2003-09-02 Thread Hughes, Bill
Sent: 02 September 2003 09:49 From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:46:59PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: (At least there's a big company behind it that has the (legal) responsability for the quality of the program..) ROTFLMAO. ??

Re: basename(), dirname(), what happened?

2003-09-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:48:37AM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:46:59PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: What legal responsibility? I hope you have pointed these fine folks to the appropriate sections of the so-called License Agreements (i.e. we agree that you

Re: basename(), dirname(), what happened?

2003-09-02 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Shankar Unni wrote: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: (At least there's a big company behind it that has the (legal) responsability for the quality of the program..) ROTFLMAO. What legal responsibility? I hope you have pointed these fine folks to the appropriate sections of the so-called License

Re: basename(), dirname(), what happened?

2003-09-02 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Hughes, Bill wrote: Even worse are the newer ones, which basically say: This software may not work, tough. Even if it does work it may not work properly and corrupt all your data, tough. You also agree to let us change the software without telling you even though this may corrupt all your

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2003-09-02 Thread Shankar Unni
Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: ROTFLMAO. ?? wtf(rotfl) + My A** Off. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: basename(), dirname(), what happened?

2003-09-01 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:20:04PM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: Where I was working at the time, they we're afraid of free software. Some people, eh? Actually, that kind of fear is probably more common that you thingk: where I work, people are afraid of free software too, for two reasons:

Re: basename(), dirname(), what happened?

2003-08-29 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Elfyn, I found a thread from January about these two functions. Are they included in the meantime? Nope. I was working on implementing there libgen functions as I had a need for them in application where they were a) not availabe and b) I could not use the

Re: basename(), dirname(), what happened?

2003-08-29 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello Elfyn, I found a thread from January about these two functions. Are they included in the meantime? Nope. I was working on implementing there libgen functions as I had a need for them in application where they were a) not availabe and b) I could not use the *BSD/[L]GPL versions. Why

Re: basename(), dirname(), what happened?

2003-08-29 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hello Elfyn, I found a thread from January about these two functions. Are they included in the meantime? Nope. I was working on implementing there libgen functions as I had a need for them in application where they were a) not availabe and b) I could not use

basename(), dirname(), what happened?

2003-08-26 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Elfyn, I found a thread from January about these two functions. Are they included in the meantime? Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: