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> What is more interesting to me was Cutler's involvement with Azure. He must have had some sway over CBL-Mariner, Microsoft's RPM-based Linux distribution.

He was involved with Red Dog (the modified Windows host that powers Azure).

He's not involved with CBL-Mariner team at all to my awareness. Mariner is mostly about solving a supply-chain problem at Microsoft... we have a ton of internal teams all using different flavors of Linux and packages have historically come from all over the place. With CBL-Mariner we are basically trying to unify on that and own the package build and distribution portion as well. There isn't much reason for a kernel designer to be involved in that as its a well-understood problem (and entirely different domain) and we already have internal upstream Linux kernel contributors (which is how produce -azure supported kernels).