If somebody really wanted to reverse engineer or gain technical advantage from your drivers they could do so almost as easily from a binary. I dare say there isnt anything in there that competitors havent thought of anyway, I honestly havent seen anything truly innovative for years
I think the real issue is not whether people have this information or not, they are going to have it and in many ways it does us more good than harm as long as we dont do anything wrong. I think the main problem is that if such information is going to be available it should be FREELY available to everyone, its not unlike the issues of free software, free documentation, free education
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If somebody really wanted to reverse engineer or gain technical advantage from your drivers they could do so almost as easily from a binary. I dare say there isnt anything in there that competitors havent thought of anyway, I honestly havent seen anything truly innovative for years
I think the real issue is not whether people have this information or not, they are going to have it and in many ways it does us more good than harm as long as we dont do anything wrong. I think the main problem is that if such information is going to be available it should be FREELY available to everyone, its not unlike the issues of free software, free documentation, free education
I think you'll find the likes of startup menus and window lists were around long b4 the poorly designed windows task bar