What the author mentions only slightly and then skirts as "theft" , is that in reverse engineering, the product is often improved. Holding someone back from looking at the original design and then improving on it is a sure path to stagnation. This just goes back to the whole "open source" arguement.
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What the author mentions only slightly and then skirts as "theft" , is that in reverse engineering, the product is often improved. Holding someone back from looking at the original design and then improving on it is a sure path to stagnation. This just goes back to the whole "open source" arguement.