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

[Ivàn Caballero Cano]

Gustavo Guillermo Pérez wrote:

>El Viernes, 10 de Junio de 2005 12:42, Ivàn Caballero Cano escribió:
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>>Que tan conveniente es eso de estudiar el entorno de Unix usando  Cygwin?
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>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".
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Orale!!! Asi que descabellada y encima nada productiva. Uts, no pues con 
ese tipo de respuestas que buena aportacion haces
para animar a la gente a usar SL.

>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!
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>At least, do not port my software to Windows.
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>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.
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>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?).
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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