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Wow. Do you have an example of this happening?
by ptcampbell 6y ago
Wow. Do you have an example of this happening?
- royjacobs 6y agoThe BIOS used in the original Compaq machines is the classic example of this.
- comprev 6y agoExactly the example I was thinking of. It was a turning point for Microsoft in the David vs Goliath (IBM) story. Now their software could run on IBM-compatible hardware opening the floodgates for PC manufacturers
- carlhjerpe 6y agoI think this is kinda what the Wine project is doing.
- CodeArtisan 6y agoReactOS, an implementation of Windows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Internal_audit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Internal_audit
- nwellnhof 6y agoHere's a recent HN post about Adobe Type 1 fonts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26107659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26107659
- TLLtchvL8KZ 6y agoI cant remember the name, but there was a GNU replacement for flash, I believe one of the rules to contributing was that you had not ever even used Adobe Flash before. Back around 2007 I used it for a while, it mostly worked okay but always came across things it wouldn't work with and went crawling back.
- ce4 6y agoWasn't it called Gnash if i'm not mistaken?
- djmips 6y agoThe Phoenix BIOS example someone mentioned elsewhere. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2585652/reverse-engineering.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2585652/reverse-engine...
- djmips 6y agoWhen Accolade Games reverse engineered the Sega Genesis (Megadrive) in the early nineties they employed the clean room technique with two groups of engineers. They went on to produce games for the Genesis without paying a royalty to Sega.