Le 18/01/2003 "Luke A. Guest" de l'uniersité de Californie, Santa Cruz
David Moore wrote:
> OS Research is Dead because people like me cannot get work.
>
> I have been trying for years to get an OS Kernel R&D job -
> I have 11 years experience doing everything from working on
> the VMS Kernel on VAX then Alpha at DEC, doing advanced OS
> Microkernels for Chorus Systems for leading european
> microelectronics companies and advanced OS Kernel Technology
> for Unix Systems Labs (the microkernelized Amadeus OS).
>
> More recently because I could not get a Corporate OS R&D
> job I set up my own business and did my own OS Kernel and
> C Compiler for Intel IA32, 64 bit DEC Alpha and MIPSCO MIPS.
> I tried to get software distributors who take a sizeable
> percentage commision off the list price for every sale
> but they didn't want to know.
>
> Then I came up with one of the best OS ideas in 40 years - a
> project I call PALOS. I still cannot get hired, get work or get
> funded for PALOS. Magically my idea starts cropping
> up in all sorts of ways and all sorts of places which vindicates
> how great my idea is even if I cannot get hired to do it - meanwhile
> I watch complete idiots ride the gravy train - all they have to do
> over the years I've been on bread and water is show up to get
> paid megabucks.
>
> At DEC I worked on a project where an R&D engineer asked me how to
> write a C switch() statement. He ended up in the Digital Technical
> Journal and I got moved of the project.
These are just typical examples of why this industry sucks now. It's not you, I have actually been trying to get into the computer industry for years (I'm now in it, but it's too late really). I could always do the work, but I had to do a degree (which I did as a mature student), but by the time I finished the industry was going down hill and all the people in it were brought up on M$ crap and these are the idiots who run the
industry.
Sad but true.
Luke.