Will Microsoft love Linux to death? Shuttleworth and Stallman on whether Windows 10 is free software's friend
Richard Stallman is a free-software activist and creator of the GNU OS that forms part of the basis of modern GNU/Linux distros. He believes that Microsoft's decision to build a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) amounts to an attempt to extinguish software that users are free to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve.
"It certainly looks that way. But it won't be so easy to extinguish us, because our reasons for using and advancing free software are not limited to practical convenience," he said.
"We want freedom. As a way to use computers in freedom, Windows is a non-starter."
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