Supply and Demand kinda falls apart when your supply is near-infinite.

Or if your demand is infinitely determined to get one specific brand, like with Apple customers.

"And 2 hours later an open-source version was released".

You'd be really hard pressed to come up with an opensourced detours that works at all

Yea. Basically, what it lets you do is take over functions and stuff in existing code.

void return1()
{
 return 1;
}


I could then modify that with a detour to return 2 or whatever I want, inside the compiled binary.

in capable hands, pretty much.

have fun crashing stuff.

You can get the older versions for free, legally. The only advantage this has is that it works on 64-bit applications too.