[ros-dev] Moving svn to another contrury or not

[Murphy, Ged (Bolton)]

Rick Langschultz wrote:

> I think ReactOS should have no Reverse Engineered code within it. 
> Reverse Engineering could be bad for the projects publicity and code-base.

> I think that reverse engineering of the Microsoft Code is wrong!!! 
> And if programmers within this project want to reverse engineer they 
> should start their own projects, with their own names, and use their 
> own code. How would you like your product(s) to be stolen?

It's not wrong, and it's not illegal. If Microsoft provided better
documentation for their internal interfaces, then it wouldn't be required.

Without reversing to discover how various parts work, ReactOS would struggle
to make a fully compatable system.

You don't think that writing an operating system to effectively clone the
Windows methodologies is wrong, yet you think that reversing various parts
to discover how it works is. That doesn't make sense to me.

As long as there is no code copying, there is no problem. One person
reverses and documents how something works, another person reads the docs
and reimplements it. It's just like reading a book.

It's no different than dismantling an engine, or a calculator, or a toy to
understand how it works.

Ged


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