[pp.int.general] Why Free Software misses the point

[Richard Stallman]

    Decompilers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompiler> exist, as well as at
    least one textbook<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversing:_Secrets_of_Rever=
    se_Engineering>
    on
    reverse engineering.

Decompilation doesn't do the job of reverse engineering, just the
first step.  Decompilers produce source code that is, in effect,
obfuscated -- by the loss of comments and meaningful identifier names
of the real source code.  To figure out what this decompiled code
really does is still detective work.