[TUHS] The Mark Williams Company and Coherent

[Dave Horsfall]

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