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This isn't Lotus Notes. The nice thing about FOSS is there's a property-based guarantee over software development progress. The moment WSL goes embrace-extend-
by yingw787 7y ago
This isn't Lotus Notes.
The nice thing about FOSS is there's a property-based guarantee over software development progress. The moment WSL goes embrace-extend-extinguish (and that's far from guaranteed to happen, given Microsoft's benign nature of late), Linux will just continue to do its own thing. It won't just stop existing. The code isn't going anywhere, and you can always host your own mirrors.
And there's always BSD.
- rbanffy 7y ago> given Microsoft's benign nature of late The only reason their are being benign to open source is because it allows them to hedge their bets and leverage their good hardware support to gain share among people who wouldn't consider Windows a viable option. WSL's primary purpose is to prevent market loss to Linux and macOS. And yes, BSD (but we all know how likely that is to happen).