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 <h3>Windows</h3>
 <p>For windows, MinGW and Cygwin are the two main platform choices for acquiring the GNU toolchain.
 It is important to understand the difference between them.
-Cygwin produces executables that use the Cygwin POSIX runtime. Note this runtime is GPL licensed.
+Cygwin produces executables that use the Cygwin POSIX runtime. Note that this runtime is GPL licensed.
 MinGW produces native Windows executables that do not require a separate runtime.</p>
 <ul>
 <li><p>For <strong>MinGW</strong>, the recommended method to get the toolchain is to install it