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From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
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Subject: FW: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft (fwd)
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---------- 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.