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From: Rob Kolstad <kolstad@BSDI.COM>
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Subject: April Fools
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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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