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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by dartharva on Thursday April 22, 2021 @12:32AM (#26898757)
Wouldn't it be easier for MS to just open-source the NT kernel instead of making the big shift to Linux? I can't think Windows' internals (if they ever get exposed) could have been inferior to Linux in any way.
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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by yazaddaruvala on Thursday April 22, 2021 @12:48AM (#26898843)
Networks effects. Microsoft doesn’t want to recreate a 20 year old organization/community that has been built on primarily donations. No company or large group of people is going to donate the same levels of dev-hours to the NT kernel.

It’s just simpler to have a team or two of in-house devs contribute those improvements from NT to Linux.

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