The need for cygwin

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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?

Sorry, I just couldn't resist. ;-)

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
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