So this has gotten more interesting as one guy who was fed up with Adobe after charging hil to cancel his PhotoShop subscription has apparently made an entire clone called ArtCraft that has better cross platform support even:
Apparently he is going after Word, Excel, PowerPoint next:
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https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/creator-of-free-adobe-clones-unveils-open-source-microsoft-office-excel-powerpoint-and-word-replications-autodesk-tools-and-other-subscription-based-services-may-come-next
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The idea of making clones has always existed but crowd AI sourced efforts using this REA tool seem to be what is happening. Here debugging isn't needed as it is full source recovery while improving it. Im sure it leads to court battles potentially though it is free and open source. This has only recently become so practical and it will be fascinating to see where it goes.
Maybe agemt reversing is too powerful and everything goes open source or in the cloud. Seems safer to reverse a whole app then e.g. target a licensing mechanism that is for sure. Interesting times.