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To: Pancho Villa who wrote (1769)	12/20/1997 3:16:00 PM
From: Eric Klein	Read Replies (2) of 3441

Pancho, I believe that this was a big victory for CDN. They didn't get the injunction against Aquarius, but the following is crucial: "Whyte gave Avant! until January 15, 1998 to allow Cadence's independent technical experts to examine all of its place-and-route products, including Aquarius and Apollo, the next-generation software due to be launched in January." The previous release from Cadence mentioned that the experts would be allowed to inspect the Aquarius source code. It's going to come down to how good a job Hsu did in covering his tracks. I'm a software engineer with close to 20 years experience. If I was Hsu, and I had a taste for larceny, I would go into the code and change all the function and variable names, change the order of declarations and definitions, and even move individual statements and blocks of code around. The problem with making major changes in the code comes from introducing new bugs. So it's going to come down to how cleverly changes were made versus how sophisticated the independent experts are. I think it's a huge victory for CDN to be allowed to examine the source code.

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