I'm not sure it's about money. This maybe be increasingly hard to imagine in this age of AI-slop, but some devs actually don't want to publish code that is a terribly embarrassing mess, and prefer to clean it up first.
I know, but not everybody knows or agrees with this. The idea that when someone doesn't put their code online it must be because they want money seems way off the mark to me, and that's the only point I was making.
> This knowledge could be useful for security research and building developer tools that does not rely on Xcode or Apple’s proprietary tools.
Yes it could be. But if you developed it for such altruistic purposes, why tease the code?
> I’m considering open-sourcing these tools, but no promises yet!
Maybe OOP is thinking of selling their reverse engineering tools? Seems like that’s still a proprietary tool, I’m just paying someone else for it