Reply to post: Re: why on Earth give this away for free to everyone on the planet

Did you know?! Ghidra, the NSA's open-sourced decompiler toolkit, is ancient Norse for 'No backdoors, we swear!'

jake Silver badge

Re: why on Earth give this away for free to everyone on the planet

Strangely enough, we used to get the source code to virtually every bit of code that we ran on corporate computers. It wasn't until Redmond and Cupertino started jealously guarding their source code that it became de rigueur in corporations world wide.

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