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Originally Posted by MarchHare
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.
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Ah, there's the confusion. Sorry, I'm sometimes pretty loose with terms that otherwise have very specific definitions. I guess that's an unfortunate side-effect of being self-taught.
All I meant to say was that they looked at System Preferences, and then created the Control Panel (for example).