> but do you wanna try RE Windows? Just see what MS does to you
Hehe, I don''t think anyone is going to be that brainsick to RE Windows... Get Linux instead, it''s better and you have the source included... But that wouldn''t be fun, eh ?
Normally, you don''t RE software to recompile anything, but to find out how a specific algorithm work, and once you understand it, reimplement it with your own code in your own product. Well, stealing the ideas of other people to be precise. But it is perfectly legal, and almost all major software companies do this on a regular base. In the US this is a somewhat grey area, because of two points: US intelectual property / patent law sees in the simple process of reverse engineering a modification of the original software, and so a copyright infringment. Second point is that you might violate existing software patents when reusing certain algorithms. You don''t have this problem in Europe though, since the law doesn''t allow patents on algorithms.
