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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by nsonha on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:41AM (#26942987)
I don't get it why would they need to reverse engineer their own software? Was it some sort of RPC without an explicit protocol?
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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by londons_explore on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:49AM (#26943089)
I guess they just decided the freerdp codebase (which already runs on Linux) was easier to work with than their codebase (which is deeply integrated into all things windows).

I think the original Microsoft codebase also uses stuff licensed from a third party, so it might have been impossible to opensource.

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