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|  Microsoft Hires Linux Foundation Engineering Manager
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Microsoft has hired a leading Linux engineering manager out of the den of one of its fiercest opponents, the San Francisco-based Linux Foundation.
Development veteran Tom Hanrahan, former director of engineering for the Open Source Development Labs and current director of engineering for the Linux Foundation, will be the new head of Microsoft's interoperability lab, one of the offspring of its deal with Novell last November.
The Linux Foundation is the group that was formed from the merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group. The Linux Foundation has warned Microsoft publicly against attempting to enforce its patents against Linux users, a response to Microsoft's warnings on the heels of its Novell deal that it believes Linux violates some of its patents.
Hanrahan was previously senior program manager of IBM's Linux Technology Center in Beaverton, Ore., then joined the Open Source Development Labs in Beaverton at the end of September 2004.
| Microsoft Hires Linux Foundation Engineering Manager -- Microsoft -- InformationWeek |
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