From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [50.116.15.146]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECB1D25AC8 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 23:28:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 158904317F; Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:28:17 +1000 (AEST) Received: from exhmta01.bpe.bigpond.com (exhmta01.bpe.bigpond.com [203.42.40.145]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC7A64317C for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:28:11 +1000 (AEST) Received: from exhprdcmr05 by exhprdomr01 with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1rlG27-000Gre-2v for tuhs@tuhs.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2024 09:28:10 +1100 Received: from [110.141.193.233] (helo=aneurin.horsfall.org) by exhprdcmr05 with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1rlG26-000AeE-1K for tuhs@tuhs.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2024 09:28:10 +1100 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 42FMS9BQ014563 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2024 09:28:09 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 42FMS8D7014560 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2024 09:28:09 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 09:28:08 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-tce-ares-id: e{aee72957-f226-4952-b9c8-4c2f68a3de99}1 X-tce-spam-action: no action X-tce-spam-score: 0.0 X-Cm-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=HZ4STDE8 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=65f4cb7a a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:117 a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=K6JAEmCyrfEA:10 a=mir7Czz4KQcrDTV9NdAA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 X-Cm-Envelope: MS4xfDVCbFrrW/HD1SyWvSVTO6BWsETuT0qAM5ssAsvPtJzXmzcRPbCfOZVJz7pWGyKN/7ZODa+rMCRmta0IKdY98gCYVKelrDONlykldDi+Kwer9rXWayc/ wDGGMmZPWr0srAeCx/UjXMpDW4+p+RQnGKsGmim2qv4/xH8eKi2wU05O Message-ID-Hash: HPTJPQPYCKJGTMGEXT5EY3A6K5AGWMIG X-Message-ID-Hash: HPTJPQPYCKJGTMGEXT5EY3A6K5AGWMIG X-MailFrom: dave@horsfall.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: The Mark Williams Company and Coherent List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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