From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 8 06:17:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA08148 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 06:17:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA08134 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 06:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA04713; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:17:32 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:17:32 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: David Greenman cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199704081307.GAA13710@root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, David Greenman wrote: > >> 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. > > This was of course announced originally on April 1st. The funny thing > above isn't so much that the person seems to be taking this seriously, but > rather the attributions (Rob Kolstad = Mr Kernel, Mike = Mr VI, and Kirk > Mr C)...what a laugh. :-) I wasn't quite sure since the original message I had was dated April 4. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891