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Microsoft Engineer Sends Rust Linux Kernel Patches For In-Place Module Initialization
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The article is making a big deal that he works for Microsoft but also says he’s been doing this back since his days working at Google. It never says that this work is part of his official job at Microsoft, though, and I don’t know if we could even know that unless it’s part of his job title. Do we know that Microsoft hired him to do this or could it just be this has been his longtime passion project and he’s doing it outside of his work responsibilities, and he just happens to currently work for Microsoft as his day job?
Microsoft has been working with a number of open source projects for some time now. It shouldn't be that surprising anymore.
It ain't Steve Balmer's MS!
Developers, developers, developers, developers!
Edit: why not
Yes, that’s why I thought this article was odd that they seem to be making a big deal out of it