🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <83...@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> l...@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lum Johnson) writes:
>;TECO is available to those who like the way it is,
>;on a basis of communal co-operation:
>;you are welcome to make improvements, but only if you consult
>;with the other user sites, and send your changes
>;to MIT to be merged in and distributed to everyone.
>;You owe your improvements to us in return for what you see here.

Hmm.  Too bad this policy wasn't visibly in effect when we were hacking
TECO-10 at Caltech.  We didn't have source code.  We ended up disassembling
the thing, inventing our own mnemonic names for labels, and massaging it back
to a form where it could be reassembled even after adding improvements.  This
was the project that gave birth to the Odd Hack Committee.

We did eventually manage to contact the folks from whom we'd gotten this TECO
in the first place (though it took a registered letter to get them to
acknowledge us), and we traded source.  I wonder if they ever merged our
changes into their (commented) source code--I know we never did.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ka...@kelp.ima.isc.com or ima!kelp!karl), The Walking Lint