>From the main office of Microsoft headquarters in Redmond a letter has been sent to Redhat stating that after carefully examining the cygwin dll, numerous copyright infringements turned up.
This also means that numerous ported software authors are in trouble as the infringements on microsofts patents also count for the software, using and distributing the cygwin .dll. In the mean time while preparing for legal measures, Microsoft has prepared a HotFix to warn victims of running rogue software and offering licenses to buy ofline that will set everything straight and allow for further legal use of cygwins .dll. The name of the hotfix will be KB01042007. -- 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/
