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Original Post: Field day for lawsuits
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InfoWorld reports on a court ruling that makes reverse engineering in software actionable, if the EULA forbids it. That sounds semi-reasonable, until you read more and realize that reverse engineering could be taken to be "we looked at a competing product to see what we could do better". The lawyers will be happy with this one....