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		Conan_Kudo on Sept 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DOS Subsystem for Linux You could use the possessive form here: "Windows' Subsystem for Linux", but that's not a thing product managers like to use in naming...

kaidon on Sept 23, 2020 [–]

It probably had an internal name like "winix" or "lindows" - but PM took the reins and came up with a much worse name, as is tradition.

Joker_vD on Sept 23, 2020 | [–]

Oh yes. My favourite example is [0] (and the parent twit).

[0] https://twitter.com/ericlippert/status/1205372172534874112

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