[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <78797018-2cfb-402d-9eb9-b1f109c76092 at p8g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
> Since any idiot can put up a web page these days, you know it all
> can't be true. So imagine my surprise when I bumped into this:
> 
> http://radsoft.net/rants/20040831,00.shtml
> 

And:

"Dave took his engineers and his new operating system called 'Prism' cross town
to the Redmond campus."

How that?
Presumably everything he did at M$ would be IP of DEC,
so he couldn't just "take it with him", unless DEC permitted it.
AFAIK he left as a "disgruntled employee" so DEC would have had
even less reason to give it away.