Re: Company sued over comments in code

Pete Ware <ware(a)cis.ohio-state.edu&gt; 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).