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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source.
(blogs.windows.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Pretend I'm an idiot (should be easy), and tell me what this all is up in here.
Classic Microsoft Business Strategy
Means that now anyone can fork the project and make changes or iterate on it without needing to wait for Microsoft to fix things.
Fanks
Np! Also forgot to add, I haven't checked the license but generally with proper open source projects (as in not just source available) it means that even if Microsoft tries to revert this at any point, having forks of this version and continuing to develop and distribute versions of it is A-OK