Oh wow. I haven't read such a hard core conspiracy theory article full of wilful words (such as "a Microsoft agent" etc) since decades. When I was young, I shar

Oh wow. I haven't read such a hard core conspiracy theory article full of wilful words (such as "a Microsoft agent" etc) since decades. When I was young, I shared this view of big bad companies willing to eat up the free will and our beloved GNU/Linux. Actually, the world is different today. My feeling is that MS is quite struggling with the pure existence of their OS. Every developer I know used Mac OS X of Linux on his machine. So (s)he most certainly doesn't produce a product for the Windows platform. My feeling is that WSL is an attempt to attract these developers. And hell yes, it may work and may reduce the market share of Linux on the desktop. But the "year of Linux desktop" never came and probably never comes, and the OSS community is strong enough to accept Windows as another non-free Linux-distribution. The other (real) distributions won't die from it.