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Microsoft Announces First Paid-For $20 Linux Distro for Windows 10 October 2018 Update
Julian Bennett
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Kevin Taylor
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Ethan Johnson
Can they do that?
Lucas Martinez
Yes, but they must provide all changes they made to software covered by GPL.
Charles Cruz
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.
Austin Perry
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Keep in mind that WLinux is made by a literally who startup, pajeets.
Lincoln White
Virtual machines are 0% normalfag friendly
Juan Moore
You have to be a complete brainlet not to be able to use VirtualBox.
Aiden Miller
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.
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.
Some companies are lead by people who only think that a good product as a price on it.
Hunter Clark
I don't even get it, what the fuck are they selling exactly? Why would I buy that instead of installing Linux alongside Windows?
Gabriel Perez
That's not the use case for WSL.
Hunter Stewart
But I've been using Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL for months.
Christian Butler
Based Microsoft showing us the way again.
Jaxon Cook
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.
John Butler
Reminder that WLinux does not even have the Linux kernel in it.
Brody Reed
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.
Joseph Martin
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.
Cameron Fisher
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.
Asher Brooks
You generally have an IT for that. Or you hire an independent/freelance IT when you are a small business.
Zachary Peterson
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.
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.
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.
Blake White
WLinux as in Windows Linux? I've lived to see the day...