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cromka • yesterday at 11:07 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

You can use debugger all you want, legally, then write the spec, then reimplement. You just can't look at the code.

We already have nearly a dozen of Adobe and Autodesk knock off apps.


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compiler-guy • yesterday at 11:40 PM

Yes. Those are clones or clonish. Not originals. So saying "Autodesk is opensource" isn't correct.

A clone of autodesk may be open source however.