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>Kikesoft gets their hands on linux

>first thing they do is make you pay for it

noice

Can they do that?

>>995802

Yes, but they must provide all changes they made to software covered by GPL.

>>995797 (OP)

Completely pointless. Why would anyone that uses Windows want to use Linux software in Windows? Why would you pay for something you can get for free? Why not just use a VM? Hell, I have never even paid for Windows and I will keep stealing their old OSs forever, so as far as I'm concerned it's all free anyway. Microsoft is fucking stupid.

>>995797 (OP)

https://archive.is/U7DSp

>implying WLinux do not already exist prior to this announcement

Keep in mind that WLinux is made by a literally who startup, pajeets.

>>995807

Virtual machines are 0% normalfag friendly

>>995811

You have to be a complete brainlet not to be able to use VirtualBox.

>>995802

>Can they do that?

Yes and no it depends how they Implement it.

You see anyone can sell a gnu/linux distribution as long as they share the source code. Or as long they don't distribute it with non-free software.

>as long they don't distribute it with non-free software.

Yes Microsoft isn't free software but the way they do it goes around the GPL. You see, windows has a WINE like software, when you use the "linux shell" in windows it actually download a "cloud" iso stocked on ubuntu/canonicals server and then executes the "WINE" like MS software for the linux software to work.

>Why would anyone that uses Windows want to use Linux software in Windows?

>Why would you pay for something you can get for free?

Some companies are lead by people who only think that a good product as a price on it.

I don't even get it, what the fuck are they selling exactly? Why would I buy that instead of installing Linux alongside Windows?

>>995811

>replacing virtual machines

That's not the use case for WSL.

But I've been using Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL for months.

>penguin gets fucked by a CoCk

>apple is a mental asylum cell

Based Microsoft showing us the way again.

Keep in mind that whoever is running Microsoft is trying to destroy Microsoft from within so that Apple and Google can form a cartel and split the market between them. You don't want that kind of a tech future. There is no reason for Microsoft to be selling any version of Linux.

>>995797 (OP)

Reminder that WLinux does not even have the Linux kernel in it.

>>995807

>Why would you pay for something you can get for free?

Guaranteed support and ability to sue for damages: those are things you don't get from free programs, and any business needs those two things.

>>995843

Literally never in my life have I needed support or took any damages from software, the only thing businesses need is to not get sued for piracy.

>>995848

When you're a business, you ask support how to do shit instead of looking it up yourself on stack overflow so if something breaks, you know who to sue.

>>995850

>When you're a business

You generally have an IT for that. Or you hire an independent/freelance IT when you are a small business.

>>995848

>Literally never in my life have I needed support or took any damages from software

You aren't a business, and a bug with in the software yuou use is not going to destroy your income.

For any business, spending thousands of dollars each year is cheap insurance to avoid losing several millions out of the blue.

>the only thing businesses need is to not get sued for piracy.

And not getting sued for failure to deliver, which can happen if the software needed for the job stops working or malfunctions in another way.

Also not wasting materials, time, and customers' trust.

So you get insurance, and business-grade licenses are some of that insurance.

>>995852

You can't find any IT willing to be sued if your business software stops working.

You can find a few desperate pajeets that will lie about being IT, and they are too poor to be worth suing of course.

WLinux as in Windows Linux? I've lived to see the day...