From eeefccfcd1119d89fb81f86a93fd49bd9b5ff16b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Starks-Browning Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:19:21 +0000 Subject: Preliminary update to FAQ to reflect latest net release. (So far, just a new title, some minor updates, and a disclaimer in each section that has to be updated for the net release, or at least looked at.) --- winsup/doc/what.texinfo | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'winsup/doc/what.texinfo') diff --git a/winsup/doc/what.texinfo b/winsup/doc/what.texinfo index dd55f0fde..ccc6ef413 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/what.texinfo +++ b/winsup/doc/what.texinfo @@ -39,18 +39,23 @@ it with their friends, etc. The Cygwin license allows you those freedoms, so it is free software. The Cygwin 1.0 product is a "commercial" distribution of cygwin. As -such, it includes such non-software things as printed manuals, -support, and aggregation of useful utilities. There is nothing -(software-wise) in there that you can't already get off the net -already, if you take the time to find and download everything (and -usually, build it yourself). We test it all to make sure it works -together, and package it in a convenient form. We consider such -testing and packaging to be a valuable service and thus charge a fee -for it. Plus, it provides income for the cygwin project so we can -continue working on it :-) +such, it includes such non-software things as printed manuals, support, +and aggregation of useful utilities. There is nothing (software-wise) +in there that you can't already get off the net already, if you take the +time to find and download everything (and usually, build it yourself), +although the @emph{versions} available for download may be different +than those distributed with the commercial product. We test it all to +make sure it works together, and package it in a convenient form. We +consider such testing and packaging to be a valuable service and thus +charge a fee for it. Plus, it provides income for the cygwin project so +we can continue working on it. For further details about the commercial +product, see @file{http://www.cygnus.com/cygwin/}. @section A brief history of the project +@strong{(Please note: This section has not yet been updated for the latest +net release.)} + The first thing done was to enhance the development tools (gcc, gdb, gas, et al) so that they could generate/interpret Win32 native object files. -- cgit v1.2.3