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WorldMaker · 2020-12-04 18:57:42+00:00

Implementing it from scratch as a skunkworks reverse engineering project designed to never need to pay license fees upstream.

graywh | karma 1157 | avg karma 1.67 · | 2010-03-04 22:38:07+00:00

Reverse engineering? You know the code is open sourced, right?

rkangel | karma 7315 | avg karma 3.63 · | 2016-05-11 15:21:52+00:00

It is reverse engineering. It's just easy reverse engineering.

ChuckMcM | karma 107741 | avg karma 5.96 · | 2020-08-01 20:09:11

This is a great reverse engineering project.

What it points out to me, painfully, yet again, is that cool stuff can actually do everything its bought to do without a "monthly service fee." And yet here we are.

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warmwaffles | karma 490 | avg karma 0.88 · | 2020-10-02 13:50:56+00:00

It was reverse engineered by a group of devs. https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2

IntelMiner | karma 2952 | avg karma 3.17 · | 2022-06-05 14:21:42

Since none of the server software exists anymore, this is effectively all clean-room reverse engineering. Writing the entire backend from scratch and guesswork based on what the client software wants

j4hdufd8 | karma 74 | avg karma 1.07 · | 2023-12-14 15:31:01

Surely someone has reverse engineered it and open sourced it?

ryacko | karma 464 | avg karma 0.62 · | 2019-07-19 16:47:29

At $500k wouldn’t be cheaper to reverse engineer it, or even start a clean room reverse engineering project and open source it?

pfoof | karma 384 | avg karma 2.01 · | 2022-12-21 11:20:20

Glad to see someone trying to reverse engineer it somewhat. We had a lot of approaches to clone it: Shumway, Ruffle, cross-compile through Haxe and OpenFL, but we are still not complete. And open-source AIR can be just a dream.

filipedeschamps | karma 479 | avg karma 3.17 · | 2013-11-22 16:09:10+00:00

Amazing. How he reverse engineered a service? Thanks.

sandoche | karma 234 | avg karma 3.16 · | 2020-10-29 15:19:38+00:00

Sounds nice, how did you proceed to reverse engineering Notion?

kevin_thibedeau | karma 19088 | avg karma 2.16 · | 2022-04-29 16:43:22

Reverse engineering for interop is legal.

grishka | karma 11238 | avg karma 3.26 · | 2022-08-17 12:46:48

Seems like an interesting reverse engineering project.

idlewords | karma 28364 | avg karma 6.34 · | 2019-03-06 03:25:34+00:00

You can just reverse-engineer it!

nosjwshere | karma -4 | avg karma -0.1 · | 2018-10-18 08:49:05

reverse engineering is cheaper

orev | karma 6146 | avg karma 4.18 · | 2022-03-01 09:34:34

Reverse engineering is the opposite of using stolen source code to reimplement something, and it’s legal most places.

agumonkey | karma 29727 | avg karma 1.44 · | 2019-11-19 15:27:18+00:00

open source and reverse engineers assemble

SomeHacker44 | karma 1876 | avg karma 2.66 · | 2018-04-11 14:25:08

"reverse engineer and reimplement it ourselves from nothing" :)

dest | karma 1332 | avg karma 3.2 · | 2016-04-05 17:27:36+00:00

Maybe it is feasible, but at the very least I would wait for someone to reverse engineer it and publicly publish its findings. I do not have the skills to do that.

Moreover, if reverse engineering is so easy, why not open-source it from the beginning?

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carom | karma 4857 | avg karma 7.9 · | 2022-03-20 03:41:45

What is there to reverse engineer? Isn't most of it open source?