@pesekcuy@pixel given the total lack of commit history and especially that Winamp predates not just Git but even Subversion (yes!), I'm actually curious what their original version control system is.
@lanodan@fial@SuperDicq >Mindset? >Merely trying to derail trains would definitely get me (and if I were still a kid, parents) into a fuckton of trouble.
See? That's your problem! You automatically assume you will get caught!
Look, you and I clearly have different risk perceptions. You seem to consider a small (fraction of a percent) risk of getting caught for cracking software unacceptable. I grew up throwing concrete slabs under passing trains to see if they would derail. We clearly exist in entirely different mindsets and this argument won't really go anywhere.
@lanodan@fial@SuperDicq >And software piracy on the cracker side of things isn't a risk I'd want to take, sure it's barely prosecuted but I don't want to take that risk, specially when it comes to software from large corporations.
@lanodan@fial@SuperDicq if you think the justice system is rotten, then literally anything is enforceable, including human sacrifices as a price for software. You can't have it both ways.
Software piracy (which includes modifying code duh) is very much alive and it's not that a lot of people get prosecuted. Your chances of being hit by a bus within the next decade are higher, probably.
@lanodan@fial@SuperDicq licenses are contracts, but in no jurisdiction a license can have any priority. If a software license says you must sacrifice your firstborn to Moloch, will you?
@lanodan@fial@SuperDicq >but you can't always do so *legally*, that's the whole point of license.
Yes, I can. And so do you, assuming you're still in France. You can't distribute the changes tho.
But if I legally own a copy of software, I can do whatever the fuck I want with it within the confines of my computers. 'murricans are the only ones prohibited from this by the DMCA.
@SuperDicq@lanodan@fial I can and I will say that editing binaries isn't hard, merely tiresome. And that your original statement "You can't study how the software works, what it does or modify it without [source code.." is wrong, because software has been both studied and modified without access to source code. It's literally a skill issue and nothing more.
I agree though that access to source code makes things easier.
@SuperDicq@lanodan@fial porting software to a different achitecture is not trivial in many cases even with source code. You can thank C programmers and their love for ugly hacks for this.