Wow, interesting, the PowerPC Mac OS Classic had a sophisticated graphing calculator program bundled as part of the operating system. But how was it developed? It was fully a clandestine effort of laid off Apple contractors/employees getting together to support a skunkworks project unofficially, then try to work it into the system disk image that shipped with the new Macintosh computers. Using old badges to gain access to Apple property even when they were not authorized to do so, then tailgating into the property when their badges were deactivated by security. Then they retroactively made it legally legitimate by defining it as a partnership with an external company, a matter of fact of having been assigned “external vendor” badges later in the project.
Personally, I don’t approve of the general approach, but as they say, the practice was somewhat relatable at the company at the time, just that they took it to extremes because they were not on payroll or under any facility access whatsoever.
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