[Teralogos News] New Discoveries in Digital Archaeology

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New Discoveries in Digital Archaeology

GREATER SAN FRANCISCO, United States/Teralogos April 3, 2101 
 
Posting today to a popular infotech news site, digital archaeologist Auberon MacWilliams announced the recovery of "a true gem of early computer science." 
 
MYCROFT is a typical Low-Sapient AI operating system, first released by System Technologies AG in 2085 for the home and small-office markets. Sales of MYCROFT have suffered considerably in recent years, so in November System Technologies chose to release the foundation source code for the operating system. MacWilliams immediately began reverse-engineering the source code, searching for clues to the "ancestry" of MYCROFT. 
 
What he discovered astonished him. "I found dozens of modules identical to portions of the 2005-era Linux kernel," he said in today's announcement. "This is by far the largest surviving block of code ever found from that period. MYCROFT was clearly built on a foundation of code from the last great era of open-source programming." 
 
MacWilliams' discovery is potentially embarrassing for System Technologies, which has long been an advocate for strong intellectual property rights and "closed-source" programming. System Technologies has so far declined to comment to MacWilliams' announcement. 
 
filed by John F. Zeigler