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[Kuci]

I'm sure open source community would make hashcat even bigger than it is now.

There are plenty of competing projects that are open source. If you are right, then why is oclHashcat the leader? I'm all for open source but the "community" seems to have failed in this case.

There are several factors. Hashcat is under active development by a group of active active devs and is heavily optimized.

Exactly. Does this support your theory?

And if you talk about that community seems to have failed... Well, community wasn't even tryin'.

Okay. Does this support your theory? No offense ;-)

Star Office (or whatever initial project later became Openoffice and Libreoffice) did not try to convince Microsoft to open its source. They rewrote the whole shebang from scratch, including all the really really boring stuff. Given a large enough community and the right leader (not me for sure) a brand new project could probably be even better than Hashcat. But I don't expect this to happen anytime soon.

magnum

Yeah, actually, all these arguments support it. You just can't say a project failed because it was open source. I wrote it clearly enough, didn't I ?

I don't know whether LibreOffice is a good example since afaik it's highly donated and therefore one might has it as a full time/part time job. But look at the CyanogenMod. It's a really big and really active community doing all this work for free.