U-Lennart Poettering, owakha amaphrojekthi afana ne-Avahi (ukuqaliswa kwe-protocol ye-ZeroConf), iseva yomsindo ye-PulseAudio kanye nomphathi wesistimu ye-systemd, ushiye i-Red Hat, lapho asebenze khona kusukela ngo-2008 futhi wahola ukuthuthukiswa kwe-systemd. Indawo entsha yokusebenza ibizwa ngeMicrosoft, lapho imisebenzi kaLennart izophinde ihlobane nokuthuthukiswa kwe-systemd.
I-Microsoft isebenzisa i-systemd ekusabalaliseni kwayo i-CBL-Mariner, ethuthukiswayo njengenkundla eyisisekelo yendawo yonke yezindawo ze-Linux ezisetshenziswa kungqalasizinda yamafu, izinhlelo ezisemaphethelweni kanye nezinsiza ezihlukahlukene ze-Microsoft.
Ngaphezu kukaLennart, iMicrosoft iphinde isebenzise izibalo zemithombo evulekile ezaziwayo njengoGuido van Rossum (umdali wolimi lwePython), uMiguel de Icaza (umdali we-GNOME kanye no-Midnight Commander noMono), uSteve Cost (umsunguli we-OpenStreetMap), uSteve. Isi-French (CIFS/SMB3 subsystem manager) ku-Linux kernel) kanye noRoss Gardler (Iphini Likamongameli we-Apache Foundation). Kulo nyaka, uChristian Brauner, umholi wamaphrojekthi we-LXC kanye ne-LXD, omunye wabanakekeli be-glibc kanye nobambe iqhaza ekuthuthukisweni kwe-systemd, naye wasuka eCanonical waya ku-Microsoft.
Source: opennet.ru