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=== Adoption ===
==== 1990s ====
In 1998, Microsoft published at least one public beta release of their Services for UNIX (SFU)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/unixproresources |title=Microsoft Resources for UNIX professionals |website=[[Microsoft]] |accessdate=2023-09-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20031022182301/http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/unixproresources/ |archivedate=2003-10-22 }}</ref> based on the [[MKS Toolkit|MKS toolkit]], which in turn included some [[GNU#Components|GNU utilities]] licensed under the [[GPL]]. Microsoft fulfilled the obligations imposed by the GPL and other [[Free and open-source software|Open Source Software (FLOSS)]] licenses by offering the source code of these software components and their licenses for download.
 
[[Services for Unix|Services for UNIX (SFU)]] v1.0 was released in February 1999.