“A US developer got a world tour for software he didn’t write, which included giving a sales pitch and demo in Australia, unwittingly, to the author.”
Sun sent a developer around the world to demo its big new DTrace product. The product was Brendan Gregg’s open source toolkit with a GUI on top and his name stripped out. Sun’s culture assumed anything good must have come from Sun. Open source runs on credit, and the company stole that too.