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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by ROARosen on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @04:07PM (#26894761)
After all, there must be something diabolical when Microsoft is just doing something to appease devs who have for years railed against them for being dev hostile.
Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @04:33PM (#26895080)
If you've been bitten by a tiger, it seems right to be wary when it invites you for dinner.
Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by waheoo on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:45PM (#26896358)
Ah... Yes.

Seriously, you kids do not remember things clearly or simply weren't around.

Microsoft simply cannot be trusted.

Maybe ya'll are fine forgiving and forgetting but personally I take a stance on a company for this kind of behaviour I don't forgive.

Same goes for a lot of companies with awful histories of Child Labor and agregious abuses.

> Linux is the long term threat against our core business. Never forget that!

I won't.

https://www.theregister.com/2001/11/12/ms_promotes_linux_fro...

Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by ROARosen on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @07:07PM (#26896521)
Imagine keeping sanctions on South Africa for apartheid decades after they've ended it and that regime is long gone.

(Not that I'm comparing the two but since you brought in child labor I'm just going further down that lane.)

Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by dane-pgp on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @07:30PM (#26896701)
The difference is, the constitution of South Africa now makes apartheid legally impossible (I assume, I haven't actually read it), whereas the corporate charter of Microsoft not just allows but potentially requires it to attack Linux.