Cygwin
Cygwin
Posted Nov 19, 2008 20:34 UTC (Wed) by fuhchee (guest, #40059)Parent article: MinGW and why Linux users should care
For completeness, the article might have mentioned cygwin, which could have been a fine POSIX layer for running libvirt etc. on windows. It was apparently not selected because its GPL license conflicts with the stated desire to aid proprietary software vendors in using libvirt.
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