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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by emodendroket on Friday August 19, 2016 @10:03AM (#12320036)
They don't even have an obligation to consider outside PRs, let alone provide a reason. It's rather a stretch to say people who want to change the behavior of PowerShell are their main customers.
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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by nkassis on Friday August 19, 2016 @11:03AM (#12320512)
Depends what main customers you are thinking off. For this product in particular, it seems these users might be potential customers of powershell. Each product has it's own main customers.
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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by wolfgke on Friday August 19, 2016 @07:29PM (#12324234)
The customers who pay money.
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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by JeffreySnover on Saturday August 20, 2016 @10:55AM (#12326857)
FYI - we don't charge for PowerShell.

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]

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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by wolfgke on Sunday August 21, 2016 @06:58AM (#12330381)
That was exactly part of my point: "main customers" are people who pay to Microsoft, e.g. for Windows licenses.
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