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Subject: Re: FW: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft (fwd) 
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From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@consys.com>
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> At 06:56 AM 4/8/97 -0700, David Greenman wrote:
> >>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).
> 
> its not THAT outrageous...if you think those guys can't be bought (they
> already
> have been, in fact), then you're head is in the sand....stranger things have
> happened.....
> 
> db
> 

Yup.  They bought Gordon Bell and C.J. Date in the last year or so.

Russell