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

[Allen, Daniel P.]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On Behalf Of Michael Kraemer
>Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 7:43 AM
>To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
>Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

>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.


Speaking as an old personal friend of one of his top team members I think I can say that the description is reasonably accurate.

Dan