From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] Source code abundance?
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 10:13:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00f001d29755$62245bd0$266d1370$@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00e101d29754$8e61b220$ab251660$@ronnatalie.com>
Speaking of looking for "stolen" code. It can be daunting. For many
years my company was in a love-hate relationship with one of our
competitors. We started out selling their product. We then parted
company and wrote our own. Then we went into joint development for a
couple of years. We then parted company again. Then we went to purchase
them. They sent me up to do due diligence on the company during the
acquisition. It was feared that they had taken code from another
competitor and they wanted me to verify that. Didn't find any evidence of
that, though I did find some verbatim code of mine that they weren't
supposed to have, that was rendered moot by the fact that we were once again
going to be the same company.
For most of the time in my UNIX career, I was working either for the
University or the US Army, so I never had any claim on my code. It went
out on various distributions, and I didn't think much about it. Every once
and a while I'd be surprised when I came across my code in some deployed
system (of all things the NeXT box, for example).
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Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-01 18:01 Arthur Krewat
2017-03-01 18:07 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-01 18:13 ` Henry Bent
2017-03-01 18:27 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-01 19:18 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-01 19:25 ` Henry Bent
2017-03-01 19:29 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-01 19:32 ` Henry Bent
2017-03-01 19:49 ` Random832
2017-03-01 19:51 ` Warner Losh
2017-03-01 20:18 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-01 20:28 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-01 20:32 ` Warner Losh
2017-03-02 13:55 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-03-02 14:15 ` Jim Capp
2017-03-02 1:22 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-02 6:50 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-02 13:36 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-04 3:29 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-04 12:51 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-06 15:33 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-03-06 15:57 ` ron minnich
2017-03-06 16:20 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-06 22:52 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-07 6:52 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-03-07 13:25 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 16:21 ` Dan Cross
2017-03-06 16:45 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-06 20:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-07 15:07 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-07 15:13 ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2017-03-07 15:28 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-07 19:44 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-06 18:00 ` ron minnich
2017-03-06 18:22 ` Dan Cross
2017-03-06 19:24 ` Nemo
2017-03-06 16:48 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 15:57 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 22:29 ` ron minnich
2017-03-06 22:59 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 23:31 ` Steve Johnson
2017-03-06 23:32 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-06 23:44 ` Steve Johnson
2017-03-06 23:48 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-06 23:53 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-07 0:42 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-07 0:33 ` Random832
2017-03-07 0:50 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 16:19 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-06 19:06 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-03-06 20:32 ` ron minnich
2017-03-06 19:36 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-06 20:17 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-06 22:19 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-03 20:06 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-03 20:28 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-03 23:12 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-03 23:56 ` Wesley Parish
2017-03-04 0:29 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-04 1:01 ` Henry Bent
[not found] ` <CAH1jEzZPonQuq_4YJWN=cpaB9J8q2+TU-zRWx+Bg+29SUvfOVQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-03-04 3:23 ` Nick Downing
2017-03-04 10:04 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-04 16:28 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-04 16:34 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-05 19:15 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-05 19:25 ` Warner Losh
2017-03-05 19:55 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 9:35 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-06 0:13 ` Josh Good
2017-03-05 15:44 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-05 18:26 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-05 18:55 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-05 19:10 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-05 21:36 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-05 22:03 ` Mutiny
2017-03-04 15:39 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-04 16:02 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-04 17:53 ` Jacob Goense
2017-03-04 18:37 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-04 18:38 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-04 20:39 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-04 21:05 ` Jacob Goense
2017-03-05 17:54 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-05 18:24 ` Mutiny
2017-03-08 12:26 Doug McIlroy
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