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simpaticodertoday at 6:38 PM1 replyview on HN

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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jaggederesttoday at 6:54 PM

As soon as you can share binary patches (highly illegal of course) we're off to the races.

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