Re: [TUHS] Source code abundance?

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).