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

[Michael Kraemer]

Allen, Daniel P. schrieb:
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>>-----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.
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>>In article <78797018-2cfb-402d-9eb9-b1f109c76092 at p8g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
>>Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
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>>>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:
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>>>http://radsoft.net/rants/20040831,00.shtml
>>>
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>>And:
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>>"Dave took his engineers and his new operating system called 'Prism' cross town
>>to the Redmond campus."
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>>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.
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> Speaking as an old personal friend of one of his top team members I think I can say that the description is reasonably accurate.
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So this means he stole DECs IP and got away with it?
(where are the IP zealots when they're needed?)