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Re:WSL Getting GUI Support by Siira on Saturday September 26, 2020 @10:34AM (#24599145)
That insane decision has been made deliberately to make competitors incompatible.
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Re:WSL Getting GUI Support by enzo1982 on Saturday September 26, 2020 @11:18AM (#24599442)
No it hasn't. [0]

Unless you want to claim the Unix developers deliberately chose the slash as a path separator to be incompatible with TOPS-10. That could be.

[0] http://www.os2museum.com/wp/why-does-windows-really-use-back...

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Re:WSL Getting GUI Support by goatinaboat on Sunday September 27, 2020 @03:05AM (#24604820)
That insane decision has been made deliberately to make competitors incompatible.

Not inconceivable. After all Windows is called w32 in Emacs not win32 as is common everywhere else because RMS couldn’t bear to think “win” in association with MS!

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