guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) (12/16/84)
An addendum to the discussion on Bell putting out "mailx", which is
Berkeley Mail with some tweaks, without giving Berkeley any credit,
and Berkeley putting out the U of T's "vtroff" stuff without any
credit (although it seems MIT is at fault for filing off the serial
numbers; Berkeley got it from them):
I just did a "diff" of the 4.2BSD "efl" and the System V Release 2
"efl" - they are almost identical, except for SCCS IDs put in for
System V (or maybe for an earlier release), except 1) the bug caused
by "efl" using a private "malloc" and "free" was fixed (I presume)
by making the private routines static to the module "alloc.c" and 2)
the comment in "main.c" that informed us that the "Compiler for the
EFL Programming Language" was written by Stu Feldman was removed.
I've noticed that lots of other System V utilities have had any references
to real live human beings removed from the comments; furthermore, a lot
of the S5R2 documents are just the old V7/S3 stuff from sections 2A and
2B, except they've been re-typeset and no longer give credit to the authors.
Was this a result of some Major Policy Decision at AT&T?
Guy Harris
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