Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 06:56:51 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft (fwd) Message-ID: <199704081356.GAA13968@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Apr 1997 14:17:32 BST." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970408141607.4123I-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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>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
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