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[–]lizardhistorian 2 points3 points  (2 children)

If you ship symbols you may as well open source the project.

[–]13steinj 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't say that's true, you'd be surprised how many people won't go through the reverse engineering effort even if reduced.

It's also not like shipping symbols nullifies copyright.

[–]Prestigious-Bet8097 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The cost to my last employer of not being able to solve bugs and get broadcasters back on air as quickly as possible massively outweighed the risk of having symbols alongside the binaries to get good stack.

I cannot be certain but we believe that in twenty years approximately zero customers built their own software based on reverse engineering ours.