Hacker News Reader

All it's going to do is increase the arms race in terms of unobfuscating code. This happened with Flash quite a few years back. The war has a null sum. I don't think there's any stake to the claim that an obfuscater could be a net gain.

View on HN

You talk like an arm dealer. "The restriction only increases cost to get forbidden stuffs, and they will eventually take it. Sum's zero, so nothing beneficial."

Yes, those horrible arms dealers, so morally bankrupt as to sully the noble and honourable tradition of killing for oligarchs with that of common trade.

Who would want money when you could have your name read at a Cenotaph?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com