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To: carranza2 who wrote (56458)	10/30/2006 11:51:46 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) of 196822

I see software code as a highly specialized language which is used to instruct chips what to do. Source code is normally in written in a 'high level language' (e.g. C, C++) which is readily human (of the geek variety)readable. This code then gets compiled to 'object code' which is much closer to straight 1's and 0's. Every line of source code is made into 100's of 1's and 0's. The problem is that each compiler on each machine will turn it into a different set of 1's and 0's. This makes it virtually impossible to prove, incontravertably, that the source was x. As others have pointed out, you can, with significant effort, try to reverse engineer it. But the lower the level of the code, the more difficult it is. As a practical matter it would generally not be worthwhile unless you were pretty certain that this particular piece was the ripped off piece. Clark

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