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And most entertainingly those Sysinternals were open source originally and were immediately close sourced after he was hired during fierce negotiations by Micro
by 616c 9y ago
And most entertainingly those Sysinternals were open source originally and were immediately close sourced after he was hired during fierce negotiations by Microshaft and many angry at him for thumbing them publicly, especially for the NT SKU registry change debacle.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysinternals https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysinternals
(Interestingly citation needed; people still circulate the code on BitTorrent of very old copies.)
Ironically a MSer told me he was famous for his infamous condition he be a Senior Engineer with an unorthodox, exceptional contractual or understood conditions: no painful managing other MS people. This only changed when made the CTO of Azure.
No idea if that's rumor's true. He's a personal hero and I'm yet to read his novel about cyber war (yes, you heard me).