From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some error info from configure.bat please
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 10:19:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85vf3se1yv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0507021840420d8cda@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sun, 3 Jul 2005 03:40:45 +0200")
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
>> From the vole itself: SFU
>> <URL:http:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/>.
>
> I assume that is a derivation of the Interix stuff they bough a few
> years ago?
Yes. And it is, well, free as in "you don't need to pay for it,
`just' register with us". It actually is supposed to contain gcc,
g++, gdb and some other GPLed software. Which is sort of amusing,
giving all the licensing FUD from Microsoft.
> On the non-free front, for those so inclined, there's MKS:
> http://www.mkssoftware.com/
>
> BTW, where did originate the Vole = Microsoft meme? Perhaps related
> to genus Microtus...?
Maybe
<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Microsoft_vole>
helps somewhat.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-03 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-02 9:32 Some error info from configure.bat please Lennart Borgman
2005-07-02 13:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-02 12:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-02 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-02 16:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-02 16:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-02 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-02 20:24 ` Jason Rumney
2005-07-02 21:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-02 21:37 ` Jason Rumney
2005-07-02 21:45 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-02 22:20 ` Jason Rumney
2005-07-03 6:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-02 21:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-03 0:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-03 0:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-03 1:14 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-03 1:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-03 8:19 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-07-03 10:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-03 1:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-03 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-03 7:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-03 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-03 7:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-03 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-03 16:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-03 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-03 18:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-04 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-04 15:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-07-04 18:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-04 18:45 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-16 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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