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Unable to buy a copy of BK

Unable to buy a copy of BK

Posted Sep 26, 2004 19:25 UTC (Sun) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998)
In reply to: Unable to buy a copy of BK by Ross
Parent article: An Interview with Tom Lord of Arch (O'ReillyNet)

I can see that more general definition. However, "poking at" doesn't imply a process to me; keeping your eyes open during the normal course of using the program is not reverse engineering. Even playing around with a program to see how it works and how you could improve your program isn't really reverse engineering to me.

I seriously doubt that most of these people who were refused licenses were going to reverse engineer the program, instead just looking at it and possibly poking at it.


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