Windows Services For Unix Now Free Of Charge

pole writes "Version 3.5 of Services for Unix will be free. Previously, it was $99. This article at Information Week has the details. It contains an NFS client and server in addition to POSIX libraries and utilities including pthreads. Aside from the NFS utilities, how does the environment compare to Cygwin?" An anonymous reader adds links to coverage at News.com and at geek.com, writing "The reviews for these tools have been highly favorable. It looks like the next volley has been fired in the struggle between Windows and Linux."

Comments

Get there together

[Leroy_Brown242]

I think the best way to get to the future, is together. Solaris web servers, FreeBSD app servers, Linux, BSD, OSX, and windows workstations, OpenBSD firewalls. This sounds like utopia to me. So, the sooner MS opens up it's doors and accepts the *nix world as a partner and not an advisary, the sooner we can got o my perfect place.

Way be to Microsoft!

Re:Microsoft motives?

[kasperd]

What do you want them to do?

• Comply with standards
• Open the source
• Replace the core of their system with a Unix system like MacOS did.

If that is too much alternatively they can just vanish, I wouldn't miss them. And BTW given their history, no matter what their next step is, I won't trust them.