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I was in a road race where my car stopped running. My competitor was able to drive across the finish line because his engine kept running. Later I had a secon
by droopybuns 9y ago
I was in a road race where my car stopped running. My competitor was able to drive across the finish line because his engine kept running.
Later I had a second race where I defeated my opponent by driving with a full tank of gas.
The victory was overturned when a judge ruled that my use of a full tank of gas to generate similar performance was ruled “reverse engineering.”
I have a hard time understanding the idea that generating the same result without deriving how the other feature works is reasonably called “reverse engineering.”
- lucb1e 9y agoAt what point in your example did you agree with the competitor not to reverse engineer his winning method? I feel like this example doesn't really reflect what happened in this court case.
- droopybuns 9y agoIs comparing the output of two different systems “reverse engineering”? Is modifying your output to be in par with a competitor reverse engineering? My point is that the competition doesn’t know if SAS uses banana peels to generate their output- we only know that the the results are the same- and I don’t think that is a reasonable definition of reverse engineering. The algorithm has not been copied- only the resulting output. Trade secrets remain protected.