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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 keep a few other engineers around.

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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.

What is Lennart doing at Microsoft?

AFAIK WSL

Jesus. Is that why my work laptop keeps crashing every 3-4 days?

No, that would be just Windows doing its thing /s

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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