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Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open-source (www.theverge.com)

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Microsoft is making its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) open-source today, opening up the code for community members to contribute to. After launching WSL for Windows 10 nearly nine years ago, it has been a multiyear effort at Microsoft to open-source the feature that enables a Linux environment within Windows.

“It has been a consistent request from the developer community for some time now,” says Windows chief Pavan Davuluri in an interview with The Verge. “It took us a little bit of time, because we needed to refactor the operating system to allow WSL to live in a standalone capacity that then allowed us to open-source the project and be able to have developers go and make contributions and for us to ingest those into the Windows pipeline and ship it at scale.”

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[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I smell desperation. The prospects of the EU 🇪🇺 abandoning Microsoft en masse must be scary.

[–] Damarus@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago

And how is this going to stop anyone from moving away from Microsoft?

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 12 points 3 hours ago

Kinda wild it was ever closed-source, but credit where it's due, I guess.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago

Microsoft’s… Linux… open source…

Alternate timeline confirmed. 😳

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub 13 points 5 hours ago

Another thing goes open-source.