7 ms·Curious: Cygwin’s been available since 1995. Why’d your company go about their own way?by colejohnson66 6y agoCurious: Cygwin’s been available since 1995. Why’d your company go about their own way?tzs 6y agoThey wanted to be able to run binaries that were built for Linux, including some commercial binaries for which we did not have source. Things have to be recompiled for Cygwin._kst_ 6y agoCygwin provides a POSIX-like layer, but it doesn't run Linux binaries.