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When it says the non-commercial version lacks "High-Performance Multi-Threading", does that mean all decompiles are going to be single-threaded, or every kind of worker in the entire platform, or ?

I (mostly) understand the rationale of not wanting to make it easy to bulk-decompile binaries for supposedly "non-commercial" users, but I'd be wary of seeing how much personal usability suffers before signing the dotted line.

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> non-commercial version lacks "High-Performance Multi-Threading"

At least until someone uses the tool to remove these limitations from Binary Ninja itself.

Assuming they ship the version with it enabled in the cheaper versions. It's always been hilarious to me that the software which is used to remove license checks and registration schemes has those things. IMO give it away and sell commercial licenses as support / etc. seems like given all the trouble trying to implement DRM and checks for the people who are most skilled at breaking those things is kinda pointless for the returns you get. Also, your product would likely generate a lot of good will and user adoption, since seriously a lot of people who want this stuff aren't even 18 yet and couldn't afford it anyway. Just give it to them, let them grow up learning how to use it, then sell it to their employer some day. Adobe and MSFT do this at the university level with great success.

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