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This page should have all the authorative information that should be in 
that wiki page:

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.about

.. and especially this:

http://cygwin.com/history.html

Both the above word things in much better way & in more proper 
perspectives, as well as giving proper credit to people involved.




Lapo Luchini wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin
> This page seems to contain some inaccuracies, but I don't know enough
> to correct them properly...
> 
> ...but I think the worse is this wikibook entry, to me it seems to
> suggests some very "strange" options and lacks the proper context to
> say that they are very peculiar (and very different form the default)
> choices:
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cygwin
> 
> What do you think of it?
> Is someone interested in "helping" those articles?
> 
> PS: being a wiki, those two articles can be of course modified by
> anyone, registered or not (tough in the latter case the IP will be
> recorded in the history as "user who modified it")
> 
> --
> Lapo Luchini
> lapo AT lapo DOT it
> 
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