These are exceptionally useful tools, firstly for events of where source files have gone missing and changes are needed. Tools like this can also be exceptionally useful for learning purposes, where one can see the source of a SWF to gather a greater understanding of how to create their own similar applications or see a different way of thinking. It is hard to work in a vacuum, and what better way is there to learn, other than from seeing what others do? Someone once said something like, it’s the dwarf that can see the furthest when standing on the shoulders of giants.

This is exceptionally useful, however it seems all too easy for people to cross from learning from others to stealing from others… Many people just find it too easy to copy and paste. The dwarfs are now trying to be the giants…

Whatever happened to the pride of achieving something, of presenting work to the world knowing that it hatched from the egg of your own creativity?