[Wlug] x86 emulation/vmare clone

[Keith Wright]

> From: "Steve Freitag" <stevef@ma.ultranet.com>
> 
> Depending on what you're trying to do, you might also want
> to check out Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/
> 
> "Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows."

Well that's in quotes, so it's just a character string,
but lest somebody mistake it for an assertion...

Cygwin was developed by Cygnus Support, a company that was
founded (at least in part) by John Gilmore of EFF fame.
It predates RedHat by about five years.
The made money selling support services for GNU software
(hence the name cyGNUs).  In addition to Cygwin, they did
some work on gcc, and hosted the guile project for a while
(Guile is GNU Scheme).  They were bought by RedHat shortly
after the RedHat IPO had them rolling in cash.

I don't mean to get too pedantic, but next someone will
be telling me that Microsoft developed DOS, and I'll
have to really rant.

Typing http://www.cygnus.com/ just takes you to RedHat,

but
http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/cygnus_1999/redhat-cygnus111599.html
gives

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and SUNNYVALE, CA---November 15,
1999---Red HatŪ, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), the market leader in open
source solutions, and privately-held Cygnus Solutions, today
announced that they have signed a definitive merger agreement,
whereby Red Hat will acquire Cygnus in a transaction valued at
$674 million based on Red Hat's Friday, November 12 closing
price.

About Cygnus Solutions
----- ------ ---------
Cygnus Solutions, a leader in open source software and an
innovating force in Internet software infrastructure, offers
software development platforms based on an open source
model. Cygnus development tools cover more than 125 host-target
combinations for embedded microprocessors and are supported by
one of the most experienced teams of engineers delivering
custom-engineering services and developer support to top
companies worldwide.

Founded in 1989, Cygnus pioneered the commercialization of open
source software.

About Red Hat, Inc.
----- --- ---  ---
Founded in 1994, Red Hat (NASDAQ:RHAT) is the market leader in
open source operating system (OS) software, services and
information.