Organizing 1000 people and trusting them with $1000 per month is not as easy as it seems...

by putting up a paywall, medium does the opposite: they are actively stopping your readership from seeing your articles.

part 5. i’ve got a lot of catching up now.

The author wrote the tutorial as he pleased. Nobody stops you from submitting a better link.

Yes, but - when you hit some bug or just need some specific combination of commands, there would be thousands posts on the web that explain how to do on unix that will work in Cygwin. Will they work in this environment?

The question is hypothetical. Sometimes the answer would be yes. Sometimes the answer would be no.