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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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	Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG,
	Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Advocacy help for CS professor
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Server Admin wrote:
> > If the professor in question
> > is a programmer, and if he is really good, ask him if Microsoft has ever
> > offered him a job.
> 
> As to this, and your statement about why Dr. McKusick doesn't work for
> Microsoft (besides the fact that he seems happy doing what he's doing), I
> don't think Microsoft is looking for as many Ph.Ds, as they are looking for
> B.S. and M.S. to do the grunt work of turning out the code.  So asking why a
> professor hasn't been offered a job at Microsoft doesn't really apply to
> much.

So tell him your goal is to be a professor, like him, instead
of a code grunt for Microsoft.

;^).

-- Terry

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