Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:39:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Rob Kolstad <kolstad@BSDI.COM> To: dfr@nlsystems.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mishania@demos.su, phil@padd.press.net, sanemail@sno.pp.se, servank@microsoft.com Subject: April Fools Message-ID: <199704082039.OAA04766@ace.BSDI.COM>
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> -----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.
It was an April Fools joke. It's not true.
RK
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