Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:39:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Rob Kolstad <kolstad@BSDI.COM> To: dfr@nlsystems.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mishania@demos.su, phil@padd.press.net, sanemail@sno.pp.se, servank@microsoft.com Subject: April Fools Message-ID: <199704082039.OAA04766@ace.BSDI.COM>
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This mail is being forwarded around: > -----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. It was an April Fools joke. It's not true. RK ==================================================================== /\ Rob Kolstad Berkeley Software Design, Inc. /\/ \ kolstad@bsdi.com 5575 Tech Center Dr. #110 / \ \ 719-593-9445 Colorado Springs, CO 80919 ====================================================================
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