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When Microsoft sold Xenix, I recall there being a clause saying they could never compete in the Unix space again. I've searched for that but haven't been able to find anything definitive.

Does anybody else remember that?

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NT has had POSIXy subsystems pretty much from day 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

It did! The first assignment in my OS class was to write a shell for Linux. The second one was to port it to NT. The requirement was to make it work with minimal changes thanks to the POSIX subsystem.

Luckily for them, Linux Is Not UniX.

Let's not Invent Nonsense Unfounded aCronymS

well, GNU's Not Unix, and thus GNU/Linux is not Unix either

But this isn't WSGNU, it's WSL

And WSL is not UNIX.

Also my thought :). 1000 additional syscalls, systemd and Wayland make it as close as MacOS is.

MacOS is Unix:

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm

MacOS is literally UNIX.

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