[TUHS] Source code abundance?

[Steve Johnson]

I don't remember.   In fact, I'm not sure I ever knew...

Steve

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 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?

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