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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 04:46:50 -0700
From: Alex Goldman <alex DOT gman AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: What's in it for Redhat?
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I'm curious, why did Redhat develop (or sponsor) Cygwin? It makes more
business sense for Microsoft to do so, and they do have the
misleadingly named Windows Services for UNIX:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/productinfo/default.mspx

(It has NFS client that seems to be missing from Cygwin)

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