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This article is entirely wrong about why it's called the Windows Subsystem for Linux and not the Linux Subsystem for Windows (not surprising, since his argument
by mdoms 6y ago
This article is entirely wrong about why it's called the Windows Subsystem for Linux and not the Linux Subsystem for Windows (not surprising, since his argument makes no sense). The real reason is that Microsoft can't name something leading with a trademark owned by someone else. Here it is straight from the horse's mouth, senior PM of WSL Rich Turner:
https://twitter.com/richturn_ms/status/1245481405947076610 https://twitter.com/richturn_ms/status/1245481405947076610
- spondyl 6y agoYou can see a similar comment from Rich Turner here on Hacker News too, under the username bitcrazed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13697918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13697918 I'd never actually read it with the apostrophe as pointing out in that tweet so the name makes a lot more sense now. Perhaps Windows Subsystem for (running) Linux would be clearer hah Also, according to his profile, Rich is former Product Manager for WSL and currently "Sr. PM for the Windows Command Line, Windows Terminal" The interpretation in the article was still interesting nonetheless
- dataflow 6y agoThey could've called it the Windows Linux Subsystem and done away with the confusion.