There have been plenty of attempts to reverse engineer Coca Cola - and some came pretty close. However the major part of Coca Cola (and its flavour) is in the

There have been plenty of attempts to reverse engineer Coca Cola - and some came pretty close. However the major part of Coca Cola (and its flavour) is in the recipe - the technical process that yields final product, not the chemical composition of the ingredients. I don't have a reference handy, but I am going to present you with an analogy for french fries. I hope you can understand my point from that case (which is even more illustrative of the phenomena I am trying to highlight). http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/05/the-burger-lab-how-to-make-perfect-mcdonalds-style-french-fries.html http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/05/the-burger-lab-h... There are plenty of fields where the Car Companies can compete - and software quality should absolutely be one of them. Therefore killing DRM does everybody a favor.