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To: Looking4Truth

It wasn’t piracy, as it was written for a plant in the same company. I was simply surprised to see it, but was more surprised that it was written for windows 3.1, and it still worked flawlessly. And that such a program (that indeed I did put alot of effort into back in the day) was preferable to modern programs...hell the program was intended for a specific type of manufacturing line, of which this plant was not one of...though apparantly it was customizable enough


43 posted on 07/29/2012 4:07:12 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: dsrtsage
It wasn’t piracy, as it was written for a plant in the same company. I was simply surprised to see it, but was more surprised that it was written for windows 3.1, and it still worked flawlessly. And that such a program (that indeed I did put alot of effort into back in the day) was preferable to modern programs...hell the program was intended for a specific type of manufacturing line, of which this plant was not one of...though apparantly it was customizable enough

I get you. I've seen that type of thing occur in my days as a consultant and I've also seen the blatant ripping off of hundreds of thousands of dollars (and lines of code) of COBOL programs from one established company to a startup. The geniuses didn't even rip out the comment lines that stated who wrote the programs and when and for whom.

I know you still 'get me' though. L8R.

46 posted on 07/29/2012 4:12:05 PM PDT by Looking4Truth (Leave it to some angry, frustrated liberal do-gooder to screw things up for the rest of us.)
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