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."'"

Comments

First suggestion for Windows interoperability

[Spy der Mann]

Support reiserFS and ext2 / ext3 file systems in windows!

Thank you.

Long-time Unix Hacker...

[Anonymous Coward]

It's funny they say that because I went to Microsoft career talks at my university (York University in Toronto) and every time a (different guy) came in and the first thing they said was:

  "... I was unix hacker for a long time before I decided Microsoft's the way to go ..."

David Korn

[gswallow]

I recall a story I heard from someone years back, when MS spoke at a conference of UNIX geeks. A man stood up and criticized MS's POSIX subsystem for Windows NT 4.0, stating that a feature in Korn shell wasn't compatible with true Korn shell. The conversation went something like this:

UNIX geek: Feature X in your korn shell implementation isn't true to the korn shell spec. Wnen do you plan to fix that?

MS guy: We're certain it's copmatible with the standard. Are you sure you don't have it wrong?

UNIX geek: Yes, I'm sure. It's broken.

MS guy: And who are you?

UNIX geek: I'm David Korn.

May or may not be true, but it was an amusing story, nonetheless.