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by marcodiego 1654 days ago
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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thaumasiotes 1654 days ago
You mean decompiled code? Reverse engineered code is just code that someone wrote to match the existing functionality of something else.
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marcodiego 1654 days ago
Yeah, right. I mixed up things. Clean-room reverse engineering is, AFAIK, legal.
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