From: Marc Rochkind <mrochkind@gmail.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: The Mark Williams Company and Coherent
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:00:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOkr1zXxOtm+_kqmccT1rJsSZ3eYSFRU3oHmTdRJbt_QZ-=1eg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2403160922390.86416@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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"... literally bug-compatible ..."
When I used to work for the phone company.... wait, I mean Bell Labs ... I
was in a department (under Rudd Canaday!) that was building an application
to print phone books, so I got to learn a little about that side of the
business. The Bells would deliberately put in bogus listings to see if the
non-Bell phone books were stealing their data. (In the one case I was told
about, they were not. The Bell company had no idea how they were getting
the data.)
Marc
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 4:28 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2024, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > After a little study, the consultant confidently opined that the binary
> > was obviously compiled from that source. "Would it surprise you," the
> > lawyer asked, "if I told you that this is yours and that is ours?" The
> > consultant did not attend the following day's meeting.
>
> Does anyone remember the case of the program that was literally
> bug-compatible? That's mostly because the source had been pirated; the
> bug was obscure enough that it was unlikely to have been reproduced
> independently...
>
> -- Dave
>
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-15 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-15 21:23 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-03-15 22:27 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2024-03-15 22:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-03-15 23:00 ` Marc Rochkind [this message]
2024-03-15 23:16 ` Rich Salz
2024-03-16 5:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-03-18 12:27 ` Dan Cross
2024-03-18 14:12 ` Douglas McIlroy
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2024-03-15 3:45 [TUHS] " Marc Rochkind
2024-03-15 5:16 ` [TUHS] " Heinz Lycklama
2024-03-15 7:00 ` Rob Pike
2024-03-15 13:03 ` Dan Cross
2024-03-15 13:43 ` Dan Cross
2024-03-15 14:10 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-03-15 15:42 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-03-15 14:40 ` Paul Winalski
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