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Admittedly, I haven't read as much as other people on this...
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I have. I have a degree in Computer Science and wrote an undergrad research paper about the history of the personal computer. I'm as much an expert in this field as anyone else on this forum.
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Keep in mind, when I say "reverse-engineering" I'm not necessarily referring to code level, I'm just talking about the internals of the OS, like was mentioned in the article.
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And that's the problem right there. "Reverse-engineering" has a very specific meaning in technology. It means making an
exact clone of something, like Compaq did with the IBM PC. Windows and OS/2 were not reverse-engineered from the Macintosh's OS, or else applications written for the Mac would also run on those other systems. They certainly had features in common, some of which were no doubt inspired by (or "stolen from") the Mac, but there most certainly was not any reverse-engineering going on. Microsoft and IBM also added features to their products that were not present on the Mac.