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To extend the metaphor, if the farm that grew the tomato is selling them to people to eat, I don't see that a subpoena is or should be required. But it breaks down anyway, because a tomato's source code is right there in it, with no opaque binary blobs to worry about trying to decompile.



Nitpick, but what you call tomato's "source code" actually is an opaque binary (or rather, quaternary) blob.




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