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		FireBeyond on May 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store Yup, from my time at Microsoft, agreed. Pretty certain that this Dilbert strip was based on Microsoft too, Dogbert's "Battlin' Business Units" management philosophy: http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-30

flukus on May 12, 2017 [–]

Not MS specifically, charging between business units as though they're outside companies is pretty common these days. It's as disastrous for cooperation and productivity as you'd imagine.

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