17 Jan
2014
17 Jan
'14
5:34 p.m.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 06:21:12AM -0800, Al Kossow wrote:
I admire their tenacity and unwillingness to accept the
fact that
it is highly unlikely the software has survived.
It may be unlikely, but we've had some big surprises before.
There was a thread on slashdot a while back where a retired programmer was
asking how he should handle "reverse industrial espionage", where the
company had lost some old code and was hiring back its retired ex-programmers
to recreate it from scratch. Naturally he'd brought a copy home back in
the old days and still had the tape, so he was wondering how to handle this
obvious good news w/o getting in big trouble for what was technically theft.
I'll bet there was a lot of that! Especially if you count hardcopy.
John Wilson
D Bit