Re: WSL keeps getting better, and it's because Microsoft is finally? admitting where developers want to be
rbowman <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 7 Jul 2026 08:57:50 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 06/07/2026 18:50, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 2026-07-05, Nuno Silva <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Remember when a Microsoft Product Manager insisted that "their" "Korn" >>> shell was "fully compatible", even doubling down, when a person in the >>> audience pointed out that it wasn't? >>> >>> That person being David Korn. >> >> Wow. >> >>> It sometimes is truly amazing how well Microsoft can screw things up. >> >> To keep myself on the rails I often remind myself of Hanlon's Razor: >> >> Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by >> stupidity. >> >> Then a little voice in the back of my mind says, >> "But Microsoft isn't stupid!" >> > Microsoft is not a monolithic entity. > > Plenty of stupid people work there. One of the challenges of managing almost any organizations is knowing you'll have a few stars, a good deal of competent workers when given direction, a tranche of semi-productive clock watchers, and a bottom 5 to 10% that should be put out of their misery. Brooks touched on that in 'The Mythical Man Month'. That's one reason why startups often don't scale well.