The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit group dedicated to accelerating Linux's growth, announced on July 24 that Markus Rex, a long-time Linux executive at SUSE Linux AG and Novell, will serve as the Foundation's new chief technology officer.

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Microsoft enters the Linux Foundation's event and Novell dominates a panel (40% of which are paid Novell employees)

The Linux Foundation today announced Markus Rex will become its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and lead its Linux Standard Base (LSB) initiative and other standardization and technical initiatives for the foundation.

Yesterday we wrote about Novell’s news from China and warned that Microsoft and Novell had begun to share some more vocabulary. Several more articles have since then been published to cover the new announcement, including this one.

Incorporation of Microsoft into GNU/Linux (especially GNOME) continues unabated

Unix operating system and server maker Sun Microsystems stole away Ian Murdock from The Linux Foundation this past March, leaving the newly constituted foundation missing a chief technology officer.