Re: Reverse engineering != piracy (was Re: RosAsm disassembler output vs. IDA Pro)

From: Betov (betov_at_free.fr)
Date: 01/24/04 

Date: 24 Jan 2004 22:07:28 GMT

Roy Jones <mhca12@sbcglobal.net> écrivait
news:opr2askobzjw3stx@news.la.sbcglobal.net:

> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 05:55:20 GMT, Randall Hyde
> <randyhyde@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> ... reverse engineering (i.e., yo, ho, ho).
>
> Prof. Hyde,
>
> You're not implying that all reverse engineering is piracy, are you?
> Legally I believe the term
> piracy pertains only to robbing ships. :)

_Yes_, of course, this is what he _means_. Surprised ?
There is no limit to what this fucky one is able to do,
you know...

>> people could disassemble other library code and cut and paste the
>> source code
>> into their programs.
>
> If that is really what Rene is doing, it would be a clear case of
> copyright infringement(piracy in the common usage). I assumed he was
> talking more about refactoring the disassembled code into RosAsm code
> and recompiling. Perhaps some kind of similar refactoring tool would
> be a nice add-on or teaching tool for HLA. Maybe a thesis project. ;)

"some kind of similar refactoring tool"... requires some
competency level, Roy. As you may know, since the beginning
of this part of the RosAsm Project, the "Great Expert of
Asm" is claiming every now and then that this is impossible
to do and that i am spoiling my time for nope. Now that it
begins to come evident that it (will) work... let us talk
of piracy...

It does not matter if it is actually effective on most small
PEs, for the swindler, and it will yet no matter when it will
work on most middle size Apps. What will matter, for the swindler,
is, and will always be, that it may fail (or will fail) in such
and such case... And, my you, if it was able to disassemble and
reassemble Internet Exporer identical, and working identical...
in two Clicks, this would not be the demonstration that it works
... this would be the demonstration that RosAsm is... a Piracy
Tool... and that legal sues are to be considered... :))

Perfectely knowing that he _would_ do this, since the beginning
of this project, i say to the RosAsm Volunteers to take a serious
care of _not_ saying, ever never, on RosAsm Board, on whatever
comercial App we could ever make a simple "try and see" test
for devs... ;) and that, in any case of such a terrible mistake,
i would immidiately do something i never do: Deleting the Post. ;)

Betov.

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