Scott's path to Microsoft

Scott Hanselman: I was the chief architect at a company called Corillian that did retail online banking. I reported to the chief technology officer (CTO) and shipped a bunch of software called Voyager that ran about a quarter of America's retail online banking.

I built a big distributed system that was like Kubernetes, except that it was written in C++ and ran on Windows. I also wrote the .NET software development kit (SDK) wrappers around it, so I was in the open-source .NET community early on.

Then I helped to introduce open source to banks, which was challenging because large banks don't usually like open source. I had to deal with the General Public License (GPL) and others. This was in the early 2000s, so people were really tense about free and open-source software (FOSS) versus open-source software (OSS). We'd go to a bank and hear, "No, we don't want to have open source here because we're afraid that you&apos...