The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
blogs.windows.com
Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

  • themachine@lemm.eeEnglish
    252·
    4 days ago

    I think it’s more embrace. They have to compete against so many more entities now.

    • Buckshot@programming.devEnglish
      141·
      4 days ago

      This is my thought, they’ve all but lost the battle for cloud servers and they’d rather the developers computers were Windows. WSL allows that.

      • Overspark@feddit.nlEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        Poorly. WSL is awesome but it’s I/O performance is not at a level which will make developers on bigger projects happy.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          4 days ago

          Yeah but imagine if they could collect licence fees after every AWS server as well.

          The world is not enough for these companies.

    • fartsparkles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      I think you’re probably right. Microsoft seems less invested in winning an operating system battle at this point. They’re positioning services and abstractions that care less about the end device’s operating system, more so that they’re at least on that device.

      I wouldn’t be surprised we see Microsoft “embrace” Proton and Wine in the next 5 to 10 years as it’s far easier to let “the community” predominantly handle supporting legacy Windows versions that have to handle it themselves.

      They can’t suddenly lose that entire OS revenue machine however and would need to transition. But I doubt that Redmond are naive to the disruption Wine and Proton are having and how technical users are starting to jump ship.