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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Android now runs Android 13 in ... by endperform on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:39PM (#34060871)
Agreed. I laugh every time someone posts it. If MS wanted to kill off Linux, Linux would be long dead by now.
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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Android now runs Android 13 in ... by servilio on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:44AM (#34062021)
> If MS wanted to kill off Linux, Linux would be long dead by now.

How do you envision they could do it? Doesn't seem plausible to me, given the distributed nature of the development of Linux.

BTW, they actually tried:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

Just totally failed.

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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Android now runs Android 13 in ... by prirun on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @02:02PM (#34070652)
Buy Canonical.

I don't think MS actually cares if Linux exists, if most people pay a Windows license fee to run it.

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