It's harder to argue that reverse engineering is harmed by open source, in a world of software patents and copyright protection that occasionally permits intero

It's harder to argue that reverse engineering is harmed by open source, in a world of software patents and copyright protection that occasionally permits interop, but always prohibits competition The alternative to working on favorably licensed OSS that you posit, is roundly illegal, unless you had no designs on modification and/or redistribution of a derivative work. https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/a/73 https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/a/73