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sandostoday at 6:02 AM1 replyview on HN

Recently had a similar, but likely more severe problem: I noticed Sol decompiled some proprietary code to re-implement some functionality for an emulation I wanted to use internally.

Now its likely soiled and I have to throw it away. Doh! I asked it about legality and it went "its almost green" but when googling, reverse-enginnering like that seems very illegal.

The weird thing is in this case, it could have pretty easily gotten the needed info from using the code as a black box, and that is apparently legal!


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userbinatortoday at 9:03 AM

Soon enough you will realise that everything is a derivative work, and the sooner that happens to everyone, the faster the delusion of Imaginary Property will disappear and lead to actual competition and progress.