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Jun 3, 2011 8:09 PM
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Next one up is Skype, apparently. Will the Loons ever learn?
Reverse engineering was almost literally coined when a bunch of hardware engineers in a clean room in Texas (Compaq) sat down and cracked the IBM PC BIOS. It was a truly awesome feat. It has made the modern computer world what it is.
It still lives on in cheap Chinese knock-offs, although I must say with less technical polish.
And the Loons? Well, they’ll reverse-engineer anything, in preference to building something new or better.
They’ll reverse-engineer it all the way back to 1995.
They’ll even use stone-age tools like autoconf. And you know what?
It will cause the end user nothing but pain and displeasure.
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Oh go on. Comment. I’d really like to hear about the “reverse engineering” so dear to the Loon Heart (or possibly spleen). It’s out there, I know it is.
And it won’t hold an, er, patch on the supreme BIOS job.
I mean, good Lord. That was absolutely totally sticking it to the man.
I miss those good old honest days.
They just took the concept of 'reverse engineering’ literally … Since engineering means making something sophisticated and useful out of an unconnected mass of stuff, they figured it’s best for all to reverse engineer something sophisticated into an unusable unconnected mass of stuff.
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