Makes me wonder if they did the same for a large system we built for a state agency. I was lead developer on that project, so I'm pretty familiar with most aspe

Makes me wonder if they did the same for a large system we built for a state agency. I was lead developer on that project, so I'm pretty familiar with most aspects of it. The first few years after delivery, the agency had us come back a couple of times for change requests and to train their in-house developer when there was turnover in that role. At some point after I left that consultancy, the agency switched to using TCS. A few years later, several other states had very similar systems built for them by TCS. While I can't see any of the internal management portions, based on URLs, the public facing portals all use similar somewhat obsolete tech stacks. The workflow is also the same. But I have no way of knowing what happened behind the scenes. Perhaps the state agency gave TCS a license to use the code we developed (the agency, not our consultancy, retained ownership of the code). Or maybe some of the TCS people who worked on maintaining the code for the agency later went on to build a new system from scratch inspired heavily by our system. There's no way to really know from my vantage point, but given this story, it sure makes me wonder.