[darcs-devel] Darcs crashes on GHC repository

[Patrick McFarland]

On Monday 03 July 2006 14:10, Anders Höckersten wrote:
> Patrick, no offense, but before you start throwing paranoid accusations at
> Microsoft employees on a public mailing list, why don't you check out what
> those people actually work with? Simon Peyton-Jones and Simon Marlow are
> well-publicised researchers working for Microsoft Research, and one of
> their main accomplishments just so happens to be GHC, by far the most
> popular Haskell compiler. GHC is most likely the compiler used to compile
> the version of Darcs you are using, and it also happens to be free of
> charge and open source (under a BSD-style license).

Ugh, what an unfortunate place of employment then. How does that even work? 
Doesn't the contract they sign to work at Microsoft prohibit them wokring on 
open source?

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