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> Proprietary software isn’t any more opaque or protected than open source software.

lol. Look, in practical terms - as well as by definition - proprietary software is owned by someone else.

Sorry. I meant to write that closed source software isn’t opaque, technologically. (More opaque, yes, opaque... no.) Legally, it’s different. But closed source compilation alone doesn’t grant a program special privileges or confidentiality or non-reversibility, which is sometimes assumed. It’s just machine code or bytecode either way.

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