Lennart Poettering, the creator of projects such as Avahi (a ZeroConf protocol implementation), the PulseAudio sound server, and the system manager systemd, has left Red Hat, where he worked since 2008 and led the development of systemd. His new employer is Microsoft, where Lennart will also be involved in the development of systemd.
Microsoft uses systemd in its CBL-Mariner distribution, which is being developed as a universal base platform for Linux environments utilized in cloud infrastructure, edge systems, and various Microsoft services.
In addition to Lennart, Microsoft has also hired several prominent figures in open-source software, including Guido van Rossum (the creator of Python), Miguel de Icaza (creator of GNOME, Midnight Commander, and Mono), Steve Coast (founder of OpenStreetMap), Steve French (maintainer of the CIFS/SMB3 subsystem in the Linux kernel), and Ross Gardler (Vice President of the Apache Foundation). This year, Christian Brauner, leader of the LXC and LXD projects and a contributor to glibc and developer of systemd, also joined Microsoft from Canonical.
Source: opennet.ru
