I never understood the hatred for Cygwin, its a (set of) DLLs that form a POSIX->Windows translation layer. All the bulk is just the utilities that people want

I never understood the hatred for Cygwin, its a (set of) DLLs that form a POSIX->Windows translation layer. All the bulk is just the utilities that people want to provide once they've got that layer (i.e. CoreUtils).