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>For me, this is worse. There's no audit trail. No way for me to verify that the binary of your app is the same as the source you provide. So there's no way I'm running your binary on my system. I simply cannot trust it with my user account.

It's not for you then.

For one, billions of people run tons of binary third party apps all day long.

Second, when you deploy to people, they have to trust you. Whether they trust your code is irrelevant. Most of them are non-programmers anyway and wouldn't even check if you gave them a source code printout.



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