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Title: Maintainer of Linux Distro AnduinOS Revealed to Be Microsoft Employee

Link: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/05/08/191...

After gaining attention from Neowin and DistroWatch last week, the sole
maintainer behind AnduinOS 1.3 -- a Linux distribution styled to resemble
Windows 11 -- decided to reveal himself. He turns out to be Anduin Xue, a
Microsoft software engineer, who has been working on the project as a
personal, non-commercial endeavor built on Ubuntu. Neowin reports: As a
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft (he doesn't work on Windows), Anduin Xue
says he's financially stable and sees no need to commercialize AnduinOS.
Explaining the financial aspects of the project, he said: "Many have asked
why I don't accept donations, how I profit, and if I plan to commercialize
AnduinOS. Truthfully, I haven't thoroughly considered these issues. It's not
my main job, and I don't plan to rely on it for a living. Each month, I
dedicate only a few hours to maintaining it. Perhaps in the future, I might
consider providing enterprise solutions based on AnduinOS, but I won't
compromise its original simplicity. It has always been about providing myself
with a comfortably themed Ubuntu." In our coverage of the AnduinOS 1.3
release last week, one commenter pointed out that the distro is from China.
For some, this will raise issues, but Anduin Xue addressed this in his blog
post, too, saying that the source code is available to the public. For this
reason, he told lacing the operating system with backdoors for the Chinese
government would be "irrational and easily exposed." For those worried that
the distribution may be abandoned, Anduin Xue said that he intends to
continue supporting it and may even maintain it full-time if sponsorship or
corporate cooperation emerges.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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