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>"Theft of trade secrets" is how Silicon Valley was built. And reverse engineering, for example - IBM PC compatible via Corona Data Systems, Eagle Computer a
by ryanmercer 7y ago
>"Theft of trade secrets" is how Silicon Valley was built.
And reverse engineering, for example
- IBM PC compatible via Corona Data Systems, Eagle Computer and Handwell Corporation
- VTech clones of the Apple II ROMs for the Laser 128
- khuey 7y agoReverse engineering is a) legal if done properly and b) not even possible here since Waymo's cars aren't for sale.
- kragen 7y agoWhat is legal today may not be tomorrow.
- ryanmercer 7y agoAnd the examples I gave went to court and, if I'm not mistaken, in both the companies were not allowed to continue to use their reverse engineered tech in their products.
- khuey 7y agoCorona and Handwell did not engage in reverse engineering. They copied BIOS source code that IBM released publicly (but not under a license than permitted them to do that). I'm not familiar with Eagle software. VTech did their reverse engineering properly and the courts sided with them. You might be thinking of Franklin Computer which directly copied Apple's software and did lose in court.