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sedatkyesterday at 9:10 PM3 repliesview on HN

which would be the right use of the term. WSL was originally called LXSS = linux subsystem. As I understand, lawyers stepped in soon after.


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sunaookamiyesterday at 10:14 PM

They already did the same thing 25 years ago with "Windows Services for UNIX": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

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throwaway27448yesterday at 11:13 PM

The two terms seem semantically identical (i.e., ambiguous and therefore meaningless) to me.