[Ayuda] Que tan conveniente es eso de estudiar el entorno de Unix usando Cygwin?

[Gustavo Guillermo Pérez]

El Viernes, 10 de Junio de 2005 12:42, Ivàn Caballero Cano escribió:
> Que tan conveniente es eso de estudiar el entorno de Unix usando  Cygwin?
Espero que sepas algo de inglés, considero tu pregunta un tanto descabellada y 
para nada productiva de todas maneras encontre hace un tiempo una explicación 
más decente que "descabellado e inproductivo".

En la página de frozen bubble el autor dice porque nadie debería portar nada 
de Linux hacia windows:
http://www.frozen-bubble.org/downloads/ [en la sección ports]
está el enlace a: ->
http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/


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Please do not port software to Windows!

At least, do not port my software to Windows.

While the GNU General Public License expressly prohibits me from denying you 
the freedom to port software protected by it to Windows, I feel that you do 
great damage to the world if you do. Let me explain.

Windows is a proprietary environment. They don't give you the source code, and 
they do anything in their power to limit your freedom. They even try to limit 
what you can do with the software you rightfully bought from them. So, 
supporting them in any way is bad for the world, because it encourages others 
to try to limit others' freedoms (it worked great for Microsoft, so it must 
be a good idea, right?).

I don't want any of my work to give anyone a reason to support companies like 
Microsoft who try to limit people's freedoms.

That's why I develop my software on a completely free platform. So I know it 
works on a completely free platform. Many people using Windows don't care 
about their freedom. They do care about quality software and for that reason 
try to replace all the user space software from Microsoft with better free 
alternatives. This is the sole reason for the existance of cygwin.

However, giving people a way to work around bugs in Windows makes them stay 
longer with Windows. That's why I consider porting software to Windows 
sabotage. It does not help people under Windows, in the contrary. It makes 
them stay longer with Windows. And while they stay, they will put pressure on 
others to also use Windows. It only helps Microsoft.

While this text singles out Microsoft, other companies are equally evil. For 
example, porting the diet libc to Solaris would help Sun, noone else. Don't 
do it.

In the same line of argumentation, I will not modify any of my software so it 
works better with proprietary development platforms like Visual C++, even if 
I sacrifice great amounts of performance by not exploiting their features. 
And I ask you to do the same.


-- 
Gustavo Guillermo Pérez
Compunauta uLinux
www.ulinux.tk

 
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