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Microsoft Larabel Welcomes Windows

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 10, 2024

As usual, people in the forums are more witty (or independence-minded) than Larabel, who is looking to appease and his bosses and paymasters, Microsoft boosters like AMD and Intel.

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This is not microsoft contributing to the linux kernel, this is microsoft extending windows functionality through the linux kernel. You can't really call it a contribution if it doesn't benefit anyone who isn't a windows user. Honestly I'm not even sure we should accept these so called contributions in the first place, they add complexity to the kernel in a way that's meaningless to most of us and only increases potential for bugs and security holes. This shit shouldn't be mainline. There should just be a patchset for WSL and people who want to use it should have a WSL compatible kernel, and people who don't want it shouldn't have to have it in theirs. EDIT: Seems my point's already being proved... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-...-RNDIS-Drivers This is probably just the start of a trend, I say we remove all of it from mainline and be done with it, it helps literally nobody who isn't on windows, so it shouldn't be in the mainline linux kernel it doesn't make sense.

Larabel's excuses for Microsoft apologism are lame at best. He never properly justified this to me, except he insinuated it was good for traffic (ads).