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@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ coreutils rewrites.
 Why?
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-Many GNU, linux and other utils are pretty awesome, and obviously
+Many GNU, Linux and other utils are pretty awesome, and obviously
 [some](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net) [effort](http://unxutils.sourceforge.net)
-has been spent in the past to port them to windows. However those projects
+has been spent in the past to port them to Windows. However, those projects
 are either old, abandoned, hosted on CVS, written in platform-specific C, etc.
 
-Rust provides a good platform-agnostic way of writing systems utils that are easy
+Rust provides a good, platform-agnostic way of writing systems utils that are easy
 to compile anywhere, and this is as good a way as any to try and learn it.
 
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