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Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetance, laziness, or limited resources.
by koheripbal 6y ago
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetance, laziness, or limited resources.
- nitrogen 6y agoIt's hard to forget that Microsoft's official, documented policy for a very long time was Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish. It all feels very vaguely analogous to the West's relations with China and Russia -- both China and Russia appeared very open for a time, and then closed back down after gaining enough leverage.
- mumblemumble 6y agoIt's hard for me to see why we are doggedly ignoring the existence of WSL in an effort to manufacture a controversy. We've got a square peg, and an operating system that has both a round hole and a square hole. There is nothing nefarious about choosing not to use the round hole.
- nitrogen 6y agoMuch as I like WSL, WSL is the natural "embrace" phase of an EEE plan, and a partial implementation with key compatibility differences the "extend" phase. I will be optimistic but forever wary, and continue to do all of my serious work in native Linux.
- phkahler 6y agoTrying to bring DX to Linux was also an attempted move in the Extend phase.