Satya Nadella
CEO, Microsoft
Microsoft loves Linux, and meaning it
Rating
95Impact score
Domains
CloudOpen sourceAI
Scouting report
Took over Microsoft in 2014, a company whose previous CEO had called Linux a cancer, and reversed the posture completely: .NET open-sourced and cross-platform, the Linux kernel shipped inside Windows as WSL, VS Code released under MIT, Microsoft joining the Linux Foundation, and GitHub bought for $7.5 billion in 2018 and left to run itself.
Curator’s note
Turned the villain of Series One’s founding argument into the largest corporate contributor to open source.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Satya Nadella by Brian Smale and Microsoft, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sources
- 01Satya Nadella en.wikipedia.org
- 02Windows Subsystem for Linux en.wikipedia.org
- 03Microsoft acquisition of GitHub en.wikipedia.org