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Re:My Talk at Microsoft by jacquesm on Monday September 23, 2019 @05:56PM (#21054185)
The fact that i can read quite a few Assembly dialects at the binary level doesn't mean that binary is suddenly equivalent to inspectable source.
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Re:My Talk at Microsoft by danShumway on Monday September 23, 2019 @07:57PM (#21055076)
Of course not, that's not something I would ever claim.

But, given a choice between serverside code that you absolutely can't inspect no matter what, and a binary blob that you can read with a bit of extra work, wouldn't you prefer the binary blob?

Where serverside logic is concerned, it doesn't even matter if the underlying code is Open Source. I still can't inspect the instance and tell if it's running the correct code, or what its parameters are.

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