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Re:The NYC subway system runs on OS/2 by xvilka on Sunday June 16, 2019 @12:02AM (#20193774)
Why not to hire a reverse engineering company and restore the source code for them?
Re:The NYC subway system runs on OS/2 by DividableMiddle on Sunday June 16, 2019 @01:12AM (#20193953)
General question: how much would one of these services cost? Any references to any?
Re:The NYC subway system runs on OS/2 by xvilka on Sunday June 16, 2019 @10:45AM (#20195696)
It depends heavily on target, architecture, used programming languages, binary size, if the binaries were stripped, etc. From $1k to millions.
Re:The NYC subway system runs on OS/2 by adrianN on Sunday June 16, 2019 @07:48AM (#20195035)
Would that be legal?
Re:The NYC subway system runs on OS/2 by anonymfus on Sunday June 16, 2019 @10:47AM (#20195707)
Australian lawyers from the top of Google Search results say that it can be if done careful:

> Generally, where a computer program is reverse engineered by copying the idea of the function presented in the program code, the original computer programmer’s copyright is not infringed. Where a computer program’s expressions in code are reproduced or adapted (including into a different computer programming language), the original computer program’s copyright is likely to be infringed. This means that where reverse engineering occurs by “clean room” design, Australian courts are unlikely to find that there has been an infringement of the original author’s copyright.

Source: https://www.dundaslawyers.com.au/reverse-engineering-of-soft...

Re:The NYC subway system runs on OS/2 by xvilka on Sunday June 16, 2019 @10:44AM (#20195695)
It is is their own code, why not? In the worst case there is always clean room reverse engineering.