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Re:Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat by Macha on Friday February 09, 2024 @11:52AM (#39316965)
One thing I noticed is we got in the last few years a lot stories of the form "Adobe donates Photoshop 1.0 source code to Computer History Museum, saved because early programmer kept it on a floppy disc in his house". Or games especially we get a lot of this.

It feels like if an employee did this with modern projects, they would at the very least be summarily fired, if not have legal action taken against them.

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Re:Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat by nilamo on Friday February 09, 2024 @01:48PM (#39318681)
These days, we use centralized source control, instead of emailing zip files and patches back and forth. Having all the source on a random piece of media was a lot more normal back then.
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