On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 06:11:12 -0700, John Lazzaro wrote: > OS license upgrade fees, etc) is easier to make. Certainly on the > CLI side, many people started out at Cygwin users to run emacs > and gcc and TeX under Windows, and then decided to add a dual-boot > option for Linux to get "the real thing."
Yeah, but a lot of people I know don't run UNIX because "cygwin is nearly as good". A lot of them also run X servers, apache, mysql etc. But they dont see the point of going to linux/bsd as they would still be runnning the same software and they are used to Windows. - Steve