OvermindDL1

OvermindDL1

An Unbelievable Demo

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I’ve been given in world of open source. You can’t make this stuff up.

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andrea

andrea

If a programmer built something great, it is the company that gets recognized. But if something bad happens, it is the programmer’s fault.

AstonJ

AstonJ

I printed socketsnoop.d. The screen filled with my own script. It was the same incomplete attempt I had hacked up a year earlier, and published as open source. It included some weird code that only made sense when I wrote it (use of PFORMAT, prior to defaultargs) and was written in my earlier coding style. I was looking at my own fucking script.

“This is MY script.”

I printed the other tools and saw the same – they were all mine. This hot new Sun product that Mr. VIP was touring the world showing off was actually just my own open source tools.

My jaw was on the floor. He didn’t seem to believe me.

I used grep to search all his tools for my name, which was in the header comment of all my tools, to prove beyond a doubt that these were mine. But I found nothing. My name had been stripped.

Why doesn’t that surprise me!

The last part made me sad :worried:

davearonson

davearonson

Certainly wouldn’t have surprised me a bit if that were done after the acquisition by 'Orrible, but having dealt with them very little, I am a bit surprised that Sun was that evil. :frowning_face:

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