16 Mar
2024
16 Mar
'24
4:28 a.m.
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