Lennart Poettering, creator of projects such as Avahi (implementation of the ZeroConf protocol), PulseAudio sound server, and 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's activities will also be related to the development of systemd.
Microsoft uses systemd in its CBL-Mariner distribution, which is developed as a universal base platform for Linux environments used in cloud infrastructure, edge systems, and various Microsoft services.
In addition to Lennart, Microsoft also employs well-known figures from the open-source community, such as Guido van Rossum (creator of Python), Miguel de Icaza (creator of GNOME and 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, one of the maintainers of glibc, and a participant in the development of systemd, also joined Microsoft from Canonical.
Sursa: opennet.ro
