Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!border-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.netnews.com!s1-2.netnews.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx05.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc From: Charlie Gibbs Subject: Re: WSL keeps getting better, and it's because Microsoft is finally? admitting where developers want to be References: <112bk53$chl8$1@dont-email.me> <112c6uq$k25o$8@dont-email.me> <112djde$12pfm$1@dont-email.me> <112eq9p$1gvj9$2@dont-email.me> User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Lines: 25 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: https://www.astraweb.com/aup NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:50:10 UTC Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:50:10 GMT X-Received-Bytes: 1540 X-Original-Bytes: 1489 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:88725 On 2026-07-05, Nuno Silva wrote: > Remember when a Microsoft Product Manager insisted that "their" "Korn" > shell was "fully compatible", even doubling down, when a person in the > audience pointed out that it wasn't? > > That person being David Korn. Wow. > It sometimes is truly amazing how well Microsoft can screw things up. To keep myself on the rails I often remind myself of Hanlon's Razor: Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity. Then a little voice in the back of my mind says, "But Microsoft isn't stupid!" -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | No artificial \ / | intelligence was X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | used in the creation / \ if you read it the right way. | of this post.