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Microsoft Rep To Keynote Unix Conference
An anonymous reader writes "According to ZDNET Microsoft is going to be keynoting the Australian Unix and Open Systems Users Group conference. From the article: '"Don't be put off by Chris' Microsoft badge -- he is actually a long time Unix hacker," the user group said today in a statement updating users on presentations at the conference ... Green, Microsoft's local Unix Interoperability and High Performance Computing specialist, will update the conference on his company's "Unix and open source-related activities, including their efforts to provide a POSIX environment in Windows, and to integrate Windows and Unix systems."'"
MS resurrects XENIX
Don't be put off by Chris' Microsoft badge -- he is actually a long time Unix hacker
Don't be put off by the 666 tattooed on his forehead and the left leg, which just incidentally looks like a goat's, either.
Don't believe his twodigit-millions make him a worse man.
Isn't that sort of like asking Ms. Hilton to address MENSA?
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They did video tape the presentation and it has been added to the microsoft underground archives at 1407 Graymalkin Lane. So much has been put away there, ideas that were deemed to "risky" but never allowed their creators to have because of non-compete and non-disclosure agreements. I remember my lawyer spent almost 8 hours going over my NDA and NCA before he even new what all I was agreeing to.
The POSIX design was needed for the certain government contracts, but don't forget the way that we managed to get the CMMI Level 5 before we even had a released product. The one thing that bothered me more than anything was the conversation they had 3 after the one you mentioned..
After getting the entire crew on board with the design specs and milestone timeline the NT CTO Erik Lehnsherr called a meeting of the respective heads. The delimna was the actual networking protocol, at the time there was NetBios, AppleTalk, and TCP/IP and they all pretty much sucked. We had some code from meeting the IEEE standards for IPv4, but the implementation was beyond ugly.
We ended up actually "borrowing" a lot of the code from FreeBSD. So I guess while the filesystem, operating structure, standard binary compliance, and pretty much everything else, NT did have POSIX compliance.
Did you ever work with Henry McCoy while he was there?
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
"What is Microsoft? Do they, like, sell micro stuff?"
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
we were never at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.
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Don't be put off by Darths' black helmet -- he is actually a long time Jedi night
All I need to do is secure the rotten tomato concession outside that conference, and I'll be rich beyond my wildest dreams! Oh wait... it's in Australia... never mind.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Quotes the parent poster, "Why on earth would anybody let an MSFT badge keynote a *nix conference is beyond me..."
I imagine it's the Krusty the Klown defense on why one must sell out:
Sobs for a few breaths then exclaims in anguish, "They parked a dumptruck full of cash on my front yard! What else could I do!?!?!?" More emphatic sobbing.
It would be great if MS supported ReiserFS... because then scandisk would actually be able to fix errors in it, as opposed to the reiserfs-tools.
has frozen over.
In other news; next week Steve Jobs will be announcing an XPod video player for the Xbox 360.
Developers, developers, developers, developers.....
Don't be put off by the 666 tattooed on his forehead and the left leg
Yeah, it just means his is readable and writable by himself, his group, and others :).
Yeah, it just means his is readable and writable by himself, his group, and others :).
Its a good thing he's not executable, or this joke would be killing him.
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'Don't be put off by Chris' Microsoft badge -- he is actually a long time Unix hacker,'
May we consider he became a traitor, please?
There you are, staring at me again.
You just know that anyone brought in to work on POSIX compatibility has got some problems. Being an X-Men freak is probably just the beginning...
Now before I get modded down, I be to remind whoever might read this that what I am saying is FACT. - bogaboga