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wumpus on April 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux

I thought that both "Windows" and "Linux" were trademarks?

lmitchell on April 12, 2017 | [–]

Presumably Microsoft is allowed to use Windows wherever they please ;)

simonh on April 12, 2017 | [–]

Since they are saying it is 'for Linux' rather than it is Linux, I suppose they are probably ok, although the system doesn't contain or even work with any parts of Linux itself in any way.

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