Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 06:36:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970408063527.25283A-100000@opus.cts.cwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970408132851.4123F-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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Heh. This was reported in Rob Kolstad's April 1 commentary which appeared in the USENIX Journal. -Chris On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > -- > Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com > Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 05:24:18 -0700 > From: Servan Keondjian <servank@microsoft.com> > To: dougrab <dfr@nlsystems.com> > Subject: FW: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft (fwd) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andy Hird > > Sent: 07 April 1997 17:24 > > To: Microsoft RenderMorphics > > Subject: FW: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft (fwd) > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 11:32:25 +0100 > > From: Phil Male <phil@padd.press.net> > > To: is-eng@padd.press.net > > Subject: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft > > > > In case you follow these things, three of the original Unix > > development > > team (Rob Kolstad (Mr Kernel), Mike Karels (Mr VI), and Kirk McKusick > > (Mr C)) have resigned from BSDI and are joining Microsoft, reporting > > directly to Bill Gates. Kolstad is to be Senior VP of R&D and > > technical > > advisor to the Board of Directors - pretty serious stuff. > > > > His comment: 'I, long-term UNIX compatriot, have the chance to co-opt > > Microsoft from within its own ranks...I have the opportunity to make > > Windows more like a real operating system, more like UNIX'. > > > > All three of these chaps have been active in the UNIX and Usenix > > community for some 17 years and are personally responsible for most of > > the code we know and love. >
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