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by atombender 2880 days ago
It wasn't. NT was built from scratch.
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swagtricker 2880 days ago
Written from scratch? Maybe. But they sure as hell didn't get it done without stealing some key "recipe ideas" from VMS.
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icedchai 2880 days ago
It was the same architect and some of the same team. Those ideas came from those people originally. Of course there will be similarities!
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vxNsr 2880 days ago
That's a little disingenuous. The "recipe ideas" were from the same minds that came up with them originally. This comes down to who really owns an idea, the entity that paid for it or the mind that thought it.
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rodgerd 2880 days ago
So once you've worked on a problem once, your brain belongs to that employer forever?
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