Message-Id:	<199808010833.EAA16376@delorie.com>
From:	"Paul Ogaz" <pogaz AT lvdi DOT net>
To:	"DJGPP List" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Okay, I have to ask this
Date:	Sat, 1 Aug 1998 01:34:37 -0700
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Greet's, John:

In addition: outside our world of the soft, the Hards think of reverse
engineering as, conceptually, the same, but (of course) implemented not on
software, but on the likes of CPUs (hmmm.....AMD R&D?), NPUs (showing my
age here), and all other hardware in general.


Paul



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> From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
> To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: Okay, I have to ask this
> Date: Friday, July 31, 1998 10:33 PM
> 
> John Meyer wrote:
> 
> > What is "reverse engineering"?  And why is it illegal?
> 
> Reverse engineering is taking the machine code of a program and working
> backward to see what kind of source (in whatever language) would give
> you that code.
> 
> It's illegal (depends on the circumstances; certainly it's actionable)
> in that it's copyright infringement.
> 
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