Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

  • RaptorBenn
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    Pretend I’m an idiot (should be easy), and tell me what this all is up in here.

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      Means that now anyone can fork the project and make changes or iterate on it without needing to wait for Microsoft to fix things.

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          Np! Also forgot to add, I haven’t checked the license but generally with proper open source projects (as in not just source available) it means that even if Microsoft tries to revert this at any point, having forks of this version and continuing to develop and distribute versions of it is A-OK