> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Hughes, Bill
> Sent: 22 October 2004 17:40
> Dave Korn wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Hughes, Bill
> ..snip..
> >> Out of curiosity, what makes you think they are using cygwin code?
> >
> > Probably the link on the download page that says
> > "Precompiled binaries for cygwin on windows".
> They may have changed their web site, it now says
> "Rateless Tunnel 1.0 for Windows with Cygwin - 200KB" and
> "Rateless Copy 1.0 for Windows with Cygwin - 220KB"
nonono, that's exactly what I was referring to; I just didn't go back and cut
and paste it verbatim, but paraphrased it from memory.
> Yep, now I downloaded version of copy for windows and
> windows-with-cygwin,
> the only difference is the bundled cygwin1.dll, the .exe's
> are identical.
Huh? That's interesting; there was no bundled dll in the one that I downloaded,
but it doesn't matter: merely *linking* against the cygwin dll is sufficient to
GPL your program.
> It's not the current dll either.
> Strings include
> -LIBGCCW32-EH-SJLJ-GTHR-CYGWIN
> cygwin_internal
> cygwin1.dll
Heh, isn't it Dave Aitel who's always saying "strings is not a tool for reverse
engineering...." ? LOL. Neither are PEview or depends, but I still use them....
> > LOL. They owe me their source code.
> Yep, "de dum dum dum, another one bites the dust"
>
> How hard is it to understand - if you want to capitalize on
> someone else's
> code you usually have to pay for it, one way or another
It should be easy enough for even an accountant to understand:-
Techie:
"We have to open our source code and give it away to anyone who asks."
Beancounter:
"What do we get in exchange?"
Techie:
"How does half-a-million or more free man-hours of highly skilled engineers'
time producing a set of tools that are an essential and valuable asset to the
company in its entire gamut of engineering, development and production practices
sound?"
Beancounter:
"Bargain."
It always amazes me that some folks are too short-sighted to take that final
step of reasoning.
> Sorry for the noise, Bill
Yeh, me too. What he said. TITTLL!
cheers,
DaveK
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