15 Mar
2024
15 Mar
'24
8:40 p.m.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 3:00 AM Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Another detail. There was lawyerly concern about the
code being stolen
There were similar issues at DEC when we ported VAX Fortran to Ultrix.
Especially
with the port of the VMS linker, the piece of the project I
worked on. We had a member of the Ultrix team writing the code to convert
VMS object file debug information to a.out STABs, but other than that the
team doing the port stayed clear of the Ultrix sources.
-Paul W.