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It is rather trivial for Microsoft to implement support for Linux. Also, if Windows source code was freely available there would be support for Windows applica

• icebraining 10y ago
  There is support for Windows applications on Linux, no source code needed: https://www.winehq.org/ https://www.winehq.org/
  • qplex 10y ago
    Yes. My point was that it is trivial for Microsoft to implement support for an open system, compared to implementing support for a closed system such as Windows. There would be better support for running Windows applications under Linux if Windows was an open system.
    • douche 10y ago
      Still, even if everything Windows-based was open-source, you'd still have to build out the shim layers in front like Wine does, unless you wanted to deal with the extreme tedium of converting all the Win32, DirectX, etc, etc, calls over.