Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
by 0-_-0 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:39AM
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The license of Live Share as appears among VScode plugins indeed says "You may use the software only with Microsoft Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code", but the license of the source code of the extension on Github is an MIT license:
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/live-share/blob/master/LICE...
Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
by Voloskaya on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:27AM
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This is not the code of the extension, it's just documentation.
Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
by leeter on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:41AM
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I think it is as well, honestly the DX12 part of this is DOA as far as I'm concerned because it's not open source. So that leaves the better support for other APIs as the key delivered feature. Could MS fix that by setting DX12 up as an open to implement API and open sourcing much of this? Yes. But until they do you're better of using the various translation layers from DX to vulkan when using linux even on WSL.
Most recently with the Live Share extension for VS Code. From skimming the licensing it is only to be used with the Visual Studio family of products. Which is an incredibly disappointing approach.
I think this is simply about ML and GPU compute for WSL. And I think Microsoft is genuine in that it sees business value in doing open source work, integrating well with Linux, etc. But at the end of the day the business interests are there and different parts of the company can be motivated quite differently.
Some skepticism remains warranted.