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> It's hacking the copyright system to extend protections that would not be possible in a world without copyright. And if it weren't for software copyright, we
by bheadmaster 3y ago
> It's hacking the copyright system to extend protections that would not be possible in a world without copyright.
And if it weren't for software copyright, we wouldn't need that protection at all!
In a software-copyright-less world, reverse engineering wouldn't be a copyright violation, so the scenarios you mention would be very unlikely to happen.
- simiones 3y agoReverse engineering is already legal and is very explicitly not a copyright violation - that's why we have open source Unix today. You may be thinking of decompilation, but that can be defeated (at least partly) with various techniques. Not to mention, with so much software moving to SaaS models, access to even the binaries to be able to do reverse engineer them is going to be extremely hard. Also, embedded devices using GNU utils and Linux would have no reason to allow any access to the code running on them in a world without copyright.
- bheadmaster 3y ago> Reverse engineering is already legal and is very explicitly not a copyright violation So you're saying I can reverse engineer Windows software, and use the results in my own product, without Microsoft raining hell on me? Wow, those ReactOS guys are really dumb with their clean-room reimplementation then! Someone send them a fax!