From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 8 06:56:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA09858 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 06:56:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA09851 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 06:56:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.8.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id GAA13968; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 06:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199704081356.GAA13968@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Doug Rabson cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 08 Apr 1997 14:17:32 BST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 06:56:51 -0700 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. ...Jordan just jogged my memory about this: It originally appeared in the ;login magazine along with a bunch of other April 1st type "news" stories. It was written seriously enough and mixed in with other non-fool's stories as to make it difficult for the lay person to know what was truth and what was not (although this particular story was so outrageous that I don't see how anyone could take it seriously). -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project