Comment by senko
5 months ago
> "How do we protect ourselves against a competitor doing this?"
DMCA. The EULA likely prohibits reverse engineering. If a competitor does that, hit'em with lawyers.
Or, if you want to be able to sleep at night, recognize this as an opportunity instead of a threat.
What about jurisdictions where reverse engineering is an inalienable right?
Which are those?
Afaik, the EU and Russia says that observing/experimenting with the external behavior of the program to determine its internal logic is legal.
Russia even allows to decompile object code if you have to solve private compatibility issues.
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