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jaggederesttoday at 5:54 PM2 repliesview on HN

We're entering an age where doing binary modification on live binaries is not a huge deal. Everything is now open "source"?


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simpaticodertoday at 6:38 PM

What is it called when there's a process that's available to individuals but is long and onerous and cannot be shared among them? Saying the binaries are open source now means that the work of reverse engineering will be repeated exactly in proportion to the number of times it's modified. I would argue on a large scale this is still effectively closed source.

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debugniktoday at 6:19 PM

I would move the quotes to "open" since the issue of licensing is still left. Although LLM providers have shown that they don't care about copyright so it should go both ways.

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