https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18534687/microsoft-windows-10-linux-kernel-feature

 

Praise the GPLv2 license.

Otherwise, I'd have suspected this was a case of embrace, extend, extinguish.

 

Actually they included a Linux interperter in Windows NT named Nutcracker. The Foxboro IA distributed control system was running on Venix and Zenix variants of Linux and was ported over to NT with a new graphics front end but still running its core on Linux.

 

Praise the GPLv2 license.

Otherwise, I'd have suspected this was a case of embrace, extend, extinguish.

It really is pretty amazing how far MS has come after getting Ballmer out of the way. He once referred to Linux as a cancer, and famously ridiculed the iPhone launch.

 

He once referred to Linux as a cancer...

And Linux developers as communists.