On Feb 6, 2004, at 11:48 AM, Craig White wrote:
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> I did call it SFU - that's why Microsoft calls it. I got the impression
> that it was the beta version - but either way, it is only demonstration
> mode. After 120 days, you have to pay for it or it shuts down.

That used to be true till recently but  now it is simply free-ware. It 
is also reportedly quite good. At least I'm told it solves some 
problems porting Ruby code that Cygwin and Mingw32 don't.

> Did you have another take on the acronym other than 'Services For 
> Unix?'

Yes