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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> BUT, it is a bad thing if people use SickStart to write scripts
>> that they could have written in a free scripting language.
>
> There are no scripting languages for MS-Windows that are Free
> Software, AFAIK.

After a cursory look at kixtart, I would say with confidence that Tcl/Tk
with the twapi package provides a superset of its features.