From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Source code abundance?
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 15:53:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170306235319.GA3819@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170306234846.GX16343@mcvoy.com>
Yeah, the wikipedia page talks about Dennis. And the source is here:
http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/source.php
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 03:48:46PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> I'll bet anything this was Coherent, I remember the same story, I think
> Dennis was involved as well.
>
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 03:44:32PM -0800, Steve Johnson wrote:
> > I don't remember.???? In fact, I'm not sure I ever knew...
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Cory Smelosky" <b4 at gewt.net>
> > To:
> > Cc:"TUHS main list" <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org>
> > Sent:Mon, 06 Mar 2017 15:32:41 -0800
> > Subject:Re: [TUHS] Source code abundance?
> >
> > Steve Johnson wrote:
> > > I can attest to at least one case where AT&T attempted to see
> > whether
> > > its Unix code had been stolen. A Unix look-alike came to AT&T's
> > > attention, and they wanted to get a sense of whether the code had
> > been
> > > copied before bringing out the big legal guns. I was one of several
> > > people asked to log into the system and see what I could figure
> > out.
> > > They particularly wanted me to look at their Yacc, because they
> > assumed
> > > that would be hard to duplicate.
> > >
> > > So I spent an interesting hour checking it out. The first thing I
> > did
> > > was to look to see whether some of my bugs or unadvertised features
> > were
> > > in the program, and they weren't. Then I threw a couple of
> > difficult
> > > cases at it, and found a couple of bugs in their code. And besides,
> > it
> > > was VERY slow. So I concluded it was a reimplementation. I gather
> > > that was the consensus of others as well, and AT&T backed off.
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Coherent?
> >
>
> --
> ---
> Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
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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
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 [this message]
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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