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Reverse engineering

Reverse engineering

Posted Jul 21, 2006 20:23 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Reverse engineering by brouhaha
Parent article: OLS: Open source graphics drivers

Some people recommend doing the two-engineer thing even where you reverse engineer by observing the effect of the program. Reason: Engineer #1 had a copy of the code in his possession, so someone might be able to (incorrectly) make a case that he copied it. Engineer #2 never had access to the code, so he's untouchable.


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