[hotpotamus]

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.

[pjmlp]

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.

[the_common_man]

What is Lennart doing at Microsoft?

[pizzapill]

AFAIK WSL

[ta8903]

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

[cassepipe]

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

[lproven]

More specifically, getting systemd to work on WSL2, but he still has the same collection of projects, including UKI and so on.