From: "Paul E.C. Melis" Date: 2001-10-28T19:59:42+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:23674] Re: Ruby's use of cygwin and commercial use! > license. However, for win32, I realized that it uses cygwin. How You don't HAVE to use the cygwin version. If you get the Ruby source, you can compile it using Visual C++ too and not worry about cygwin at all. Reagrds, Paul