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Re:The rev.ng decompiler goes open source by 8organicbits on Friday March 29, 2024 @01:30AM (#39860999)
I've been planning to use a non-enforcement model for a future project. Some users will always pay, because of corporate policy or ethics. Some will never pay and will reverse engineer out any software license checks. Asking the user if they have a license keeps the honest ones honest and permits ad-hoc free trials, emergency use, and other reasonable "unlicensed use".
Re:The rev.ng decompiler goes open source by userbinator on Friday March 29, 2024 @02:59AM (#39861363)
Some will never pay and will reverse engineer out any software license checks.

For a long time (and might still be; not paying much attention anymore), it was a "rite of passage" in the scene to crack IDA... using itself.

Re:The rev.ng decompiler goes open source by mrexodia on Friday March 29, 2024 @04:54AM (#39861912)
It never was a “rite of passage”, because removing IDA’s license checks has always been trivial…