At the risk of being a dick, the tiny toe I've dipped into programming inclines me to believe this is bullshit. Libraries are built on top of other libraries, to the point that trying to learn C or it's derivatives is as much about remembering which library has the subroutines you wanna call as it is about understanding syntax.
If it's being continually maintained, a bit less likely than you might think.
When you get into projects that might be 100s of files with 200k lines of code. It reaches a point where no individual knows all the code or what points to what, so, an obscurely named function buried deep might not get spotted.
That's how Microsoft got caught stealing windows code, they didn't find the comment signature to erase it.
No but after twenty years one would assume software companies aren't recycling code amymore
At the risk of being a dick, the tiny toe I've dipped into programming inclines me to believe this is bullshit. Libraries are built on top of other libraries, to the point that trying to learn C or it's derivatives is as much about remembering which library has the subroutines you wanna call as it is about understanding syntax.
If it's being continually maintained, a bit less likely than you might think.
When you get into projects that might be 100s of files with 200k lines of code. It reaches a point where no individual knows all the code or what points to what, so, an obscurely named function buried deep might not get spotted.
That's how Microsoft got caught stealing windows code, they didn't find the comment signature to erase it.
Poorly phrased.
Windows 3.1 was stolen code. I'm fuzzy on the details, but it was proven in court and then a payoff before judgement.
Yeah, I'd been thinking more along the lines of personnel. Who knows though? He's pretty sneaky
see thats an interesting angle, didnt think of that, good !