Byte magazine was like a paper github. People published everything including the source code for BITBLT. A scoundrel later patented BITBLT and sued Xerox! It wa

Byte magazine was like a paper github. People published everything including the source code for BITBLT. A scoundrel later patented BITBLT and sued Xerox! It wasn't difficult for Xerox defend against the fake patent since it was published in Byte. One issue had the entire source code for the Star Trek game written in Basic. This brings back memories.