Re: Company sued over comments in code
Pete Ware <ware(a)cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
With any luck, the company will be bankrupted by the lawsuit. Of
course, judging by the meaningful variable names (watermellon?)
Hack, XEmacs has variables named `ivan' and
`run_the_gcc_developers_over_with_a_steamroller', and it's been in
"business" for quite some time. Who knows what part of code or
temporary variable she could have picked?
and the fact that they don't even know who wrote the code (great
bug
tracking and regression testing going on there -- not)
It may be that they know perfectly well who wrote the code, but are
trying to protect the poor fools who wrote the comments.
"Shame and anger"... "painful discovery"... "mortified"...
Give me a
break! :-( She must have been jumping with joy for the new
opportunity to gain more than the minimum wages (10,000,000 dollars).
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