asciilifeform: because if you actually sell the thing full-bore, you are now 'asking money for the sun'
asciilifeform: and copies. so you're stuck where you end up selling time on the machine, in somewhat circumscribed use cases
asciilifeform: and it can even come to where you have to lie, understate capability of product, even
asciilifeform: you get to an 'uncanny valley' effect where the better the thing works, the worse off you are, because 'not believable'
asciilifeform: it is just like the 'programmers' thread from hour ago
asciilifeform: back to the debug thing (because imho it is very educational) - it is very difficult to sell something which actually solves a problem, on account of the whole meatwot thing
asciilifeform: what difference if usg, or chinese emperor
asciilifeform: why would i care ~which~ thief steals everything from me ?
asciilifeform: see and i didn't even need to watch it
asciilifeform: this did not annoy folks as much as it should have because until recently (linux ver. is new) everyone ran it on a designated turdbox with the other wincrap
asciilifeform: as in arbitrary code exec as result of crafted sample
asciilifeform: the folks who own it now are profoundly aware of their position. you pretty much have to beg repeatedly to so much as be given an address to which to mail the cheque
asciilifeform: who 'leaks' - is damned publicly and never dealt with again, has to buy support via shills
asciilifeform: why? story is: irfan guilfanov builds custom copy for each buyer.
asciilifeform: reasonably recent ida (having, e.g., 'hexray' plugin, more or less mandatory, and support for weird cpus, etc) is notoriously scarce on warez
asciilifeform: mats: ida is a total monopoly on the kind of thing that it is, bar none. i don't know of any other product category anywhere in modern industry where there is ~ONE~ thing
asciilifeform: must be confusing it with somethig else?
asciilifeform: mats: what's wrong with rewinding by running proggy again
asciilifeform: mats: what, precisely, do you need reverse-gear for ?
asciilifeform: decimation: the folks who have 'must work' as hard requirement still prefer the whole 'spend ten years with magnifying glass' to 'rethink computing'
asciilifeform: the notion that any kind of animal is even possible other than rat, is held to be a lunatic fringe thing
