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This was an April Fools Joke!!

I guess someone fell for it. :-)

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Ken Stox					stox@enteract.com

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Doug Rabson wrote:

> 
> 
> --
> Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
> Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891
> 
> ---------- 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.
> 
> 
>