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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:24:12 +0200
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On 6/12/2012 7:08 PM, Roger K. Wells wrote:
> On 06/12/2012 11:10 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:46 AM, James Johnston wrote:
>>>   Wikipedia says that ...
>> Wikipedia isn't the keeper of the information relevant to Cygwin.  You
>> can only find the truth at cygwin.com.  Besides, companies do support
>> open source projects by providing man hours to it.  It doesn't mean
>> that the company providing those hours has any other right to it than
>> you or I do.  Cygwin is a separate entity from Red Hat.
> What's this then?
>
> http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/      a link on: http://cygwin.com/
>
> If they are a separate entity this will certainly mislead some of us....
>

reporting all the sentence is more clear :
"For Cygwin licensing or commercial support, please visit the Red Hat 
Cygwin Product site."

On linux you can choose between Fedora and RHEL , here
you can choose between "Cygwin" and "Redhat Cygwin"

it is not so strange in the software world

Marco



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