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Why aren't we (as in those who care about libre software)

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Why aren't we (as in those who care about libre software) working on ways to brute-force reverse engineer proprietary software into modifiable FOSS?
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we are
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>>62179256
A single person couldn't do it unless he had 1000 years to live and was already and absolute genius - programming alone is not enough you have to re-invent the concepts main programmers came with on your own.

A team of 10 people of the same caliber would take 100 years.

And 100 people would do it in few years, but who's going to pay them?
You could spend the next years actually working for that proprietary software, not be a genius and achieve more in the same amount of time, helping much more people.
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>>62179297
this

and 100,000,000 programmers could do it all in about 5 minutes
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>>62179256
Because you'll be violating the TOS and probably get soo'd.
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>>62179329
A million monkeys with typewriters could do it in seconds after they're finished writing Shakespeare
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>>62179488
An human-synergized AI could probably do it in a nanosecond by 2200.
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>>62180297
I think the future God in the machine would be more concerned about find ways around entropy and moving efficiently trough space maybe even trying to see if leaving the universe is possible OR it could shitpost on /g/ about its riced linux only time will tell.
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