Comment by AgentMatt
7 hours ago
I agree. Don't have a citation now, but I remember reading that this was a copyright problem. They wanted to name it "Linux Subsystem for Windows", but apparently the Linux foundation does not allow unaffiliated projects to have a name beginning with "Linux", or something like that.
You can parse it as "Windows (Subsystem for [running] Linux)"
also bad for your product name to start with a competitors brand