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Preliminary update to FAQ to reflect latest net release.

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(So far, just a new title, some minor updates, and a disclaimer in each
section that has to be updated for the net release, or at least looked at.)
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@@ -39,18 +39,23 @@ it with their friends, etc. The Cygwin license allows you those
freedoms, so it is free software.
The Cygwin 1.0 product is a "commercial" distribution of cygwin. As
such, it includes such non-software things as printed manuals,
support, and aggregation of useful utilities. There is nothing
(software-wise) in there that you can't already get off the net
already, if you take the time to find and download everything (and
usually, build it yourself). We test it all to make sure it works
together, and package it in a convenient form. We consider such
testing and packaging to be a valuable service and thus charge a fee
for it. Plus, it provides income for the cygwin project so we can
continue working on it :-)
such, it includes such non-software things as printed manuals, support,
and aggregation of useful utilities. There is nothing (software-wise)
in there that you can't already get off the net already, if you take the
time to find and download everything (and usually, build it yourself),
although the @emph{versions} available for download may be different
than those distributed with the commercial product. We test it all to
make sure it works together, and package it in a convenient form. We
consider such testing and packaging to be a valuable service and thus
charge a fee for it. Plus, it provides income for the cygwin project so
we can continue working on it. For further details about the commercial
product, see @file{http://www.cygnus.com/cygwin/}.
@section A brief history of the project
@strong{(Please note: This section has not yet been updated for the latest
net release.)}
The first thing done was to enhance the development tools (gcc, gdb,
gas, et al) so that they could generate/interpret Win32 native object
files.