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The thing I’m publishing is currently the only public source of that information and code worldwide. For those who need it, there is literally no competition, unless someone else opens Ghidra and reproduce my efforts over several long years from scratch. I don’t publish because I want to play numbers-go-up with the world population; I publish because I invested years of research for my own benefit and wish those who come after me to have a starting place further along than where I had to begin. Sure, it’ll benefit users, but ‘on the shoulders of giants’ only works when you publish at all.

There are only maybe a few thousand people at most worldwide who could benefit from what I’m doing, and only 1% of them might actually go looking for this. Can you imagine working as an open source maintainer on a project with a hard cap on audience size of a hundred people? Seems fine to me; I’m one of those hundred, after all :)



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