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>But nowadays, people confuse Microsoft Windows, the successor to DOS, with a Unix operating system, and want to run mailx on it.

...huh

>If you want to use mailx, there is the technically and morally sane option of using a free Unix implementation.

I mean it's really not that hard to release a Windows compatible version. You change a single file name?

This just sounds like throwing gas on the flame war that is unix vs windows.

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It was written in 2007. There was much greater tension between Microsoft and free software at that time.

yeah I just noticed that, good point. Although releasing as much OSS/Free software to every OS (regardless of status) would have been a better fighting route than "*uck you."

You can even work around it without renaming the file. Cygwin and LXSS for example allow the use of file names such as "aux.c" without any changes to the mailx source.

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