Re:It's easier to port a shell than a shell script
by tlrobinson on Monday August 09, 2010 @03:28PM
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Something similar has happened to me before. I was sitting in the audience of a talk, and the speaker said something blatantly wrong about something I had worked on, so I asked them to clarify, and they responded with something like "they did such and such", which was also wrong, so I said something to the effect of "well, 'they' is 'me' and you're wrong because blah blah". They didn't have much to say after that.
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Re:It's easier to port a shell than a shell script
by dctoedt on Monday August 09, 2010 @05:56PM
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The story reminded me of an analogous experience I had some years ago. A client asked me to help negotiate a software license agreement drafted by the other side’s lawyer. I saw that the other lawyer had selectively copied and edited a set of model software license provisions developed by an ABA committee. It amused my client when, on the negotiation conference call, I pointed out to the other lawyer that he had left out certain language that had been included in the model provisions to make them a reasonable compromise on the issue in question. The other lawyer was a bit discomfited when he realized that I was the lead author of the model provisions and the chairman of the drafting committee. (This actually happened twice, in the space of just a few days, for two different clients.)