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Here's one example of IBM providing code - PAYUP Redhat, Oracle, & IBM

For starters, we're going to discuss some stolen code found here...go to this URL:

http://expect.nist.gov/HISTORY

Search on "Schmidgall" and see these entries for March 1992:

3/29/92 3.22.3 Jay Schmidgall gave me yet another pty_aix3.c. He also gave
ifdefs for POSIX terminal support.

3/18/92 3.22.2 Jay Schmidgall modified
pty_sgi3.c to make a pty interface for recent versions of AIX.

As an IBM employee, Jay Schmidgall cannot "give away" anything developed on HIS TIME or IBM's TIME, because HIS TIME IS IBM's TIME according to the "IBM Affadavit Not to Compete and Intellectual Property Agreement" that every IBM Programmer & IBM Engineer signs. That is, this behavior should NEVER have happened:

...e.g. "Jay Schmidgall gave me yet another pty_aix3.c. He also gave ifdefs for POSIX terminal support

More disturbing than his modifying what appears to be a piece of Silicon Graphic's code pty_sgi3.c within IBM's walls...then to become pty_aix3.c to "make a pty interface for recent versions of AIX" [and then pushing it back outside of IBM's walls] is the suggestion to "fix" the comments section of a piece of code by commenting out "strchr" but then NEVER GIVING THE CODE LINE like "#INCLUDE strchr.h" or "#INCLUDE strings.h" .... but instead listing what appears to be a part of an AT&T SysV.4 Copyright statement:

e.g.

* + 4. You may have to comment out the declarations of strchr in regexp.c.
* +
* ---------------------------------------------
* AT&T 4.03 OS:
* ---------------------------------------------
* ../net/tcl6.4>

___________________________________________________

Where's the "strchr" line of code he's talking about? It's in the same place as the "Wink wink" or emoticons. It's not there! It's not there because this is clearly Boy Scout Secret Club Code: Signaling by one programmer to another in a public discussion via the following secret code words that really suggest "to do" or "to read instead as" the following:

* "COMMENT OUT" ======> "REMOVE THE LINES TOTALLY"
*
* "declarations" section ====> "comments [Copyright]" section
* i.e.
* "declarations of strchr" = "AT&T 4.03 OS"

* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~
* FROM URL AT: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl and then searching for: Schmidgall porting notes comment
*
* From: Jay Schmidgall -
* Date: Fri, Sep 25 1992 2:30 pm
* Email: shmdg...@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jay Schmidgall)
* Groups: comp.lang.tcl
*
* ../net/tcl6.4> diff -c porting.notes.old porting.notes
* *** porting.notes.old Fri Jul 31 10:35:29 1992
* --- porting.notes Fri Sep 25 13:29:52 1992
* ***************
* *** 102,107 ****
* --- 102,109 ----
* set up to use the BSD version (in /usr/ucb) then this won't be a problem.
*
* + 4. You may have to comment out the declarations of strchr in regexp.c.
* +
* ---------------------------------------------
* AT&T 4.03 OS:
* ---------------------------------------------
* ../net/tcl6.4>
*
* --
* : jay j...@vnet.ibm.com My opinions and ideas, not my employer's.
* : shmdg...@rchland.vnet.ibm.com
*
* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* FROM URL AT: http://expect.nist.gov/HISTORY
*
* 3/18/92 3.22.2 Jay Schmidgall
* modified pty_sgi3.c to make a pty interface for recent versions of AIX.
*
* 3/29/92 3.22.3 Jay Schmidgall gave me yet another pty_aix3.c. He also gave ifdefs for POSIX terminal support.
*
* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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