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SEA told that the PKware source code still had their spelling mistakes in the comments, which was part of why they were a bit indignant by the whole thing.. But
by dusted 6y ago
SEA told that the PKware source code still had their spelling mistakes in the comments, which was part of why they were a bit indignant by the whole thing.. But this is a story about one mom-pop biz vs another, but that didn't really come to light until years after.
- dctoedt 6y ago> SEA told that the PKware source code still had their spelling mistakes in the comments That's like the Apple v. Franklin Computer case from the early 1980s: Franklin made a computer with an OS that it said was "compatible" with the Apple II; Franklin claimed to have independently developed its own OS, but it turned out that the Franklin code included not only what must have been thousands of identical lines as the Apple code, but also the name of one of the Apple programmers, James Huston, as well as the name "Applesoft." [0] (If memory serves, I read somewhere that the names were embedded as values of no-op string variables so that they wouldn't be stripped out during compilation, as comments would be.) [0] Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp., 714 F. 2d 1240, 1245 (3d Cir. 1983), https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10063204125696546680#p1245 https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=100632041256965...