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[โ€“] tabular@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm aware you can intentionally try to make source code unreadable and making open source software effectively proprietary but I do not know of any examples of people doing that. Do you?

[โ€“] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They meant backdoors hidden in plain sight, so making it readable, but (EDIT: seemingly) innocent. People do that.