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On 2023-10-02 15:54, Johnson, Jaycob RTX via Cygwin wrote:
> I am inquiring about the supportability of Cygwin. 
> Is the software commercially supported, more specifically, actively
> supported?
> Additionally, are there feature updates, bug fix, security fixes that are
> provided?
> If so, how often are these released?
I suspect you should be doing your due diligence and looking to answer those 
questions yourself.
To answer those questions, you can read the Docs and FAQ linked below in the 
list footer, and read the mailing list Archives linked from the site, available 
via many mail archive services, and via gmane on Usenet.

If you are uninspired to do that work, then how about:

Many businesses and corporations base parts of their business around Cygwin, 
particularly supporting embedded developement, such as RTEMS and other RT, down 
to the bare metal, based around newlib libc and its more minimalist variants, 
running on MS Windows hosts and servers.

The newlib libc, Cygwin libraries and packages are continually being improved by 
patches or updated releases, often daily, to improve compatibility with POSIX, C 
and other standards and implementations, host platform support for the latest 
releases, and address issues and vulnerabilities.

Both user (e.g. entertainment media) and developer (e.g. tools, services, and 
daemons) focused libraries and packages are supported, with some builds and 
patches provided by volunteer contributors working for commercial vendors, 
including RedHat/IBM, other vendors using those platforms in their businesses, 
or building and selling products based on those platforms.

Many patches are submitted and packages supported by volunteer contributors who 
find the platform or packages useful on their work or home systems, or the 
compatibility and interoperability much better than provided by other products, 
some commercial.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
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