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   @cyberspook Furthermore, even if a perfect decompiler was somehow written that could output the exact same source lines, the comments would still be missing, as those aren't included in the compiling process.
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     • ¢υяισυѕ тнιηкєя :openbsd: ? ? ?
     @Suiseiseki
     The main reason why Stallman has even made distributing the source code a requirement is because reverse-engineering software is a fucking nightmare and a specialty of a few professionals. Most people can't really audit this mess, like, at all. Even C and assembly language are piss-hard to audit and debug. So no, the source code doesn't really matter if we can just disassemble the entire program with a press of a button. But we can't really do it.
     @curiousthinker
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     CyberSpook?? (cyberspook@soc.redeyes.site)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 19:06:07 JST CyberSpook??

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     • ¢υяισυѕ тнιηкєя :openbsd: ? ? ?
     @Suiseiseki
     Yeah, yeah, I get it, cars are all locked down nowadays. That's also an issue, and certainly a concern for the Right-to-Repair movement.
     @curiousthinker