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Because that requires breaking the almost assured stipulation in a software license agreement that says "You will not try to RE this software", which is fine to ignore for home gamers, but not something you generally want to mess around with in a business setting where the risks are much higher.

Reverse engineering is protected under certain conditions, even if the EULA prohibits it

The thing about this type of thinking is that it often requires risking millions of dollars and a major distraction from your primary goal in order to find out if it's true or not.

As would be running critical software certified for Windows on ReactOS as envisioned by GP. So, either we talk about an enterprise setting, in which GP already fucked up, or a more personal setting, in which both whaat GP and I said are reasonable

That is how you get a hardware provider to stop selling you stuff

Also, the one thing that's important above all else in industrial automation is reliability. If your LLM doesn't know about one tiny little detail that ends up causing your product to fail, your customers start losing money and you can no longer point the finger at your PLC manufacturer. Make bad gambles like that and you won't be in business for long.

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