A/V scanners are just too fucking stupid to see past the fact the executable has been compressed.

No extra download on top of a fresh installation of your (proprietary) OS.

On linux, it's much harder to define what's in and what's not, so it's a genuinely less interesting playing field for competitions.

It seems to me you would also forbid a demo to use a 3d accelerator in the name of having a metric you can understand.

That's alright, but that's not really pushing your hardware to its extents.

I initially got abysmal results (no result found for just about anything I searched for, like the very technical "implicit volumes" or "queyras")

Then I deactivated "safe search" and finally obtained some results. However I suspect my original good impression I had of having found "relevant" (authoritative?) results in the first place were due to the safe search being on.