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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by WorldMaker on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @05:04PM (#14101734)
'for' is heavily overloaded as an English preposition. You are expecting a connotation of "for [the benefit of] Linux" versus the connotation of "for [the purpose of] Linux". Another example in English might be the relative meanings of 'for' in "this gift is for you" versus "this gift is for good behavior".

Other languages use multiple words or different cases for some of these situations. English leaves it ambiguous.

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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by EpicEng on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:30PM (#14103662)
The fact that there are so many of us discussing it implies that it is a failure of a name. After all, what are words for if not communicating? We can debate semantics all day, but in the end, it's obvious that many people find the phrasing to be confusing.
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