16 Mar
2024
16 Mar
'24
midnight
"... literally bug-compatible ..."
When I used to work for the phone company.... wait, I mean Bell Labs ... I
was in a department (under Rudd Canaday!) that was building an application
to print phone books, so I got to learn a little about that side of the
business. The Bells would deliberately put in bogus listings to see if the
non-Bell phone books were stealing their data. (In the one case I was told
about, they were not. The Bell company had no idea how they were getting
the data.)
Marc
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 4:28 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Fri, 15 Mar 2024, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
[...]
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*My new email address is mrochkind(a)gmail.com <mrochkind(a)gmail.com>*
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