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by bheadmaster 1208 days ago
> I've used MS PowerShell and WSL a bit, and their implementations of common CLI software is sometimes incompatible

Are you implying that Microsoft would use the common CLI software interfaces if GNU coreutils weren't GPL? Because I deeply believe they wouldn't. Embrace, extend, extinguish.
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jen20 1208 days ago
They already ship curl. In doubt the license is the thing stopping it, but there is some precedent here.

WSL (v2) is just a fancy wrapper around a Linux VM though, so the tools you get there are from the distro, not Windows.

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aragilar 1207 days ago
No, they don't ship curl, see https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/08/19/removing-the-powershe... and https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/1901.
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