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Ubuntu on Windows

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shmerl ◴[] No.11391358[source]
So it's like Wine in reverse. Is it FOSS?
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1. drvdevd ◴[] No.11394860[source]
And here you've hit upon what would actually be interesting: the open sourcing of Windows itself, open sourcing of Hyper-V, etc. This is a 'nice to have' addition to Windows for sure. But it really does nothing to make Windows more relevant as an open source platform which is actually a major technical strength of most UNIX-alikes. And no I'm not saying Microsoft has to go GPL.