[kwlug-disc] Windows to support SSH?

[B. S.]

Aside from Khalid's point of an unwillingness to acknowledge there may be something to that 'other guy' (Linux), I expect the difficulties have more to do with GPL than technical ability to effect.

It wouldn't surprise me that the only reason ssh (ssl, actually?) is even possible within a proprietary provided environment is the not exactly 'GPL or die' licensing availability within ssl. At least as of the last time I looked at it.

[I just took a quick peek at openssh.com, openssl.org, and wikipedia to try and get a sense of the licensing stuff ... then quietly shut the door and walked away. So I can't quickly give references here, but it does seem to me one doesn't have to entirely GPL their stuff to make use of the community code, but being able to do so required careful navigation.] No doubt MS didn't want to have to bury some "This is free and open source code you may download directly for yourself." notice somewhere.



----- Original Message -----
> From: William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
> To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 2:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Windows to support SSH?
> 
>T he article says,
>     "This is not first time Microsoft has planned to adopt SSH for its
>     Windows platform, the company had tried to allow the secure shell
>     protocol to be used within Windows twice but was unable to implement
>     it."
> So, #1 software company in the world couldn't do SSH?  There gotta be
> something else. :-)
> -- 
> William
> 
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 02:05:40PM +0000, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>>  http://thehackernews.com/2015/06/windows-secure-shell.html
>> 
>>  This would be great if it didn't involve PowerShell.