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xonya
7y

I started working in 2014. In one of my first jobs they gave me a virtual machine running Windows 2000.

I had a conversation that went more or less this way:

Me: «Why a so old OS?»
Boss: «Because we rely on an old library which has been compiled on Windows 2000»
Me: «What library is it? Who wrote it?»
Boss: «We wrote it. It belongs to our company.»
Me: «Can we try to port it on a more recent OS?»
Boss: «Oh, we've lost the source code a long time ago...»
Me: «...»

rant

wtf

source code

legacy system
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  • 19
    7y
    But its possible to decompile dll's :/
  • 24
    7y
    @zemaits I had not thought about that, but I do not know if it was worth. Anyway, I do not work there anymore and I'm sure that virtual machine is still running. :D
  • 6
    7y
    @xonya :D Reminds me of this one https://zdnet.com/article/...
  • 3
    7y
    Lost it as in code got deleted or code was sold to someone else making their ownership void?
  • 4
    7y
    @asgs They physically lost the original source code.
  • 13
    7y
    @sergiolarosa89 I still have on a hard disk a copy of cat photos I took 15 years ago, how can companies lost software they developed? :D
  • 1
    7y
    😧😦😦😦
  • 2
    7y
    🤣🤣🤣 Now that's a pain to deal with! I had nearly the same scenario, i rewrote the library myself 🤣
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