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0 pointsmarcodiego4y ago0 comments

Because reverse engineered code is usually a mess, unmaintainable and takes a lot of effort to make even small improvements. Also, you run the risk of being accused of copyright infringement.

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thaumasiotes4y ago

You mean decompiled code? Reverse engineered code is just code that someone wrote to match the existing functionality of something else.

marcodiegoOP4y ago

Yeah, right. I mixed up things. Clean-room reverse engineering is, AFAIK, legal.

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0 pointsmarcodiego4y ago0 comments

Because reverse engineered code is usually a mess, unmaintainable and takes a lot of effort to make even small improvements. Also, you run the risk of being accused of copyright infringement.

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thaumasiotes4y ago

You mean decompiled code? Reverse engineered code is just code that someone wrote to match the existing functionality of something else.

marcodiegoOP4y ago

Yeah, right. I mixed up things. Clean-room reverse engineering is, AFAIK, legal.

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