On Thu, Jul 11, 2002, Christoph Bugel wrote about "Re: Slightly OT: New Version of 
MSIE for Solaris and HP-UX":
> I've seen it on solaris8. don't know if its a hoax :-)
> 
> solaris8:~$ cat /bin/clear
>...
> #       Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corporation
> #         All Rights Reserved
> 
> #       This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft
> #       Corporation and should be treated as Confidential.
>...
> /usr/bin/tput ${1:+-T$1} clear 2> /dev/null
> exit

Amazingly, it is indeed true - I just checked on Solaris 8.
If you meant to ask if this is hoax played by sun - I don't know, it's
not the kind of hoaxes companies like to pull (putting competitor's
copyrights on parts on their own product.

On the other hand, it's very strange why Sun would honor a Microsoft
copyright on 2-line program... They could have easily removed a space
(say) and deleted that Microsoft copyright.

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