One caution about reverse engineering; while it may be legal to do,  
it is illegal to use 'borrowed' code in other code that you might  
release or resell without permission.  In some cases this might also  
include a method of doing something (IE: software patents).

There have been many cases recently where companies were sued for  
having parts of someone else's code in their for sale code.

A concern when changing jobs has to do with this.  Someone with  
intimate knowledge of someone's source code is considered risky to  
another company with a similar product.  Whether or not it is the  
intention, it is difficult to not re-use code that one has seen else  
where.  And the original code is copyrighted or the implementation is  
patented, hello fun with the legal system.

jim

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