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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: The Mark Williams Company and Coherent
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 09:28:08 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2403160922390.86416@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiWN+CNEBmU+f2BbPWWUyd3j0bDq2otJPJbDda-4iRSbBg@mail.gmail.com>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-03-15 22:28 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 [this message]
2024-03-15 23:00   ` Marc Rochkind
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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