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Is Proprietary Software Over?

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A few days ago, I came across this post: Someone, Brandon Thomas, allegedly decompiled the entire Adobe suite, Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, Lightroom etc... In total, 7 software programs. All rewritten in Rust with AI , and published as open source. Oh yes, and he did it again a few days later…

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    Is Proprietary Software Over?

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