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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. (blogs.windows.com)
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Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

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[–] Damarus@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I don't think that, as Microsoft hasn't done a lot (any?) of that stuff in recent years. It's good to be cautious but really what is the problem with opening the source for something that already existed for a while and is embraced by many?

[–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

It's because they have pivoted to subscriptions on office, ads on windows and general data harvesting.

[–] 7dev7random7@suppo.fi -1 points 19 hours ago

Projects are receiving issues about WSL compatibility issues. So this directly influences FOSS projects.

They would go as far as put bounties for PRs just to get more hold in the community. Just swapping to a permissive license appears to be enough to get contributions.

They can keep their secrets; I won't ever check this repository out.