Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 13:29:08 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: FW: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970408132851.4123F-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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-- 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.
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