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On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:43:52PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>On 01/07/2010 11:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like  VirtualBox,
>> Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to
>> provide the linux in windows ?
>
>Huh.  Fancy that.  You're right.  There's no need for Cygwin anymore.
>Time to shut down the project.  Everybody gather up your stuff and go
>home now.  Chris, can you hit the switch for the web site?

Ok.  Done.  I think we st

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