Comment by invader

Comment by invader 3 days ago

Yet another klunge in the ivory tower of software bloat. It is like all existing software is gravitating towards a single point of singularity, with all existing platforms merging into an incomprehensible black hole, sucking the whole of humanity with it.

There was no real point in WSL in the first place, except for desperate attempts by Microsoft to stay relevant in the cloud age. To take two huge and very different systems with all their bugs and idiosyncrasies, merge them (creating even more bugs and idiosyncrasies along the way), and call it progress? I call it insanity. Only now with FreeBSD.

p_ing 3 days ago

> There was no real point in WSL in the first place,

Microsoft doesn't do anything without filling a gap or fulfilling customer requirements.

It clearly had "a point".

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invader 2 days ago

So Micro$oft is a customer-oriented company now? Haven't heard such a good joke in a while.
Microsoft, being a monopoly, hardly cares about customers, especially about closing some imaginary "gaps". What they care about is preserving their dominant or monopoly position wherever they can, since in the last 25+ years, they lost so badly so many times, they shifted from "owning" the whole industry to being a monopoly in particular segments. They are basically repeating the path of IBM from being the industry to being irrelevant and struggling desperately to stop that inevitable process.
If Microsoft had listened to its customers, it would never have neglected and killed Skype, it would have continued to support XNA, so adored by the indie game devs, it would never have closed Arkane Austin and Ghostwire studios, it would have never preinstalled spyware with every single Windows installation... But Microsoft hardly cares.

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- p_ing 2 days ago
  
  > So Micro$oft is a customer-oriented company now? Haven't heard such a good joke in a while.
  I've seen many customer requested changes go into various products at Microsoft as having requested such changes.
  
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  invader 2 days ago
  
  And I've seen Microsoft buying companies and killing their products despite active communities over and over again. A blatant breach of antitrust laws that Microsoft somehow managed to get away with.
  
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