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I'm not hip to all the big names in open source development, but I know Lennart Pottering and Guido van Rossum both ended up at Microsoft, so they might be able

I'm not hip to all the big names in open source development, but I know Lennart Pottering and Guido van Rossum both ended up at Microsoft, so they might be able keep a few other engineers around.

the_common_man 3y ago
What is Lennart doing at Microsoft?
- pizzapill 3y ago
  AFAIK WSL
  - ta8903 3y ago
    Jesus. Is that why my work laptop keeps crashing every 3-4 days?
    - cassepipe 3y ago
      No, that would be just Windows doing its thing /s
  - lproven 3y ago
    More specifically, getting systemd to work on WSL2, but he still has the same collection of projects, including UKI and so on.
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pjmlp 3y ago
Add a couple from Java side as well, after all the drama, Microsoft is now an OpenJDK contributor and has their own distribution, after acquiring jClarity. And a couple from Rust side, after the Mozilla layoffs. And a couple of ISO C++ members. And their own Azure Linux distribution went out of preview at BUILD 2023.