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Re:How the Windows Subsystem for Linux Redirects Syscalls by jamespo on Thursday June 09, 2016 @05:25AM (#11868331)
Are you too young to remember "the network is the computer"?

And of course this worked in reverse, when Netscape released their commercial webserver Microsoft rushed to give away IIS.

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Re:How the Windows Subsystem for Linux Redirects Syscalls by pjmlp on Thursday June 09, 2016 @06:54AM (#11868568)
I started coding in the 80's and I remember how the UNIX market was afraid of Windows NT workstations, before they actually started losing market share to the free (beer) UNIX versions in form of BSD and GNU/Linux.
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