I mean can’t someone steal code from the devices file manager? or create his own fork?(Sorry for bad English)

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    Closed source is generally compiled code in an executable, so you’d have to do a lot of work de-compiling it back to the source code first.

    Even at the OS level, lots of the stuff “under the hood” in Windows is obfuscated, and still the same issue, most of it is compiled code, you’d have to de-compile a significant portion of it (in an OS there’s also an amount that doesn’t have to be de-compiled) to be able to actually look at the code itself.

    Please don’t apologize for bad English, it’s not against the law to have English as a second language. As a US citizen, one of the most frustrating thing is knowing brilliantly competent and capable immigrants who are ignored and passed over because their education and credentials are simply in a different language. They often come as refugees and didn’t have the opportunity to get a great English education, but literally come with multiple degrees from quality universities in their home countries. Treating them like they know less because they speak a different language is so fucking absurd. Also, your English is fine, don’t beat yourself up.

    I would sound worse in any language I tried to speak other than English, you’re doing better than I would, and better than a lot of English speakers would when put in the same situation speaking a second language they’re not familiar with.

    • Deniz🇹🇷@lemy.lolOP
      6·
      2 days ago

      Thanks man I just sometimes make grammar mistakes and people ridicule my weird choice of words and my accent thats why I said sorry for bad English

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        Hey, I used to be a lot better writer, but then I got cancer and now my brain leaves out lots of words when I write or replaces words with similar words. These days I find myself constantly re-editing comments to make them make sense because the first run misses a lot. Nobody knows anyone else’s story or why they might struggle with communication, and whether it’s a second language or losing your faculties due to disease and age, it’s not really something fair to ridicule others for. Cheers and keep up the good work, you look like you’re doing fine to me.

  • aMockTie@beehaw.org
    10·
    2 days ago

    Source code is like the recipe to create a program. Compiling the source code is like cooking or baking a recipe.

    You can look at the end result and attempt to reverse engineer how it was made, and might even be able to produce a copy that is indistinguishable from the original. Without the original recipe/source code, you’ll never know for sure if there is anything missing from your reproduction however.

    Open source code is like a recipe that is posted freely online or otherwise openly distributed. Closed source code is like a proprietary recipe that is only known by one company/restaurant.

    • Deniz🇹🇷@lemy.lolOP
      211·
      2 days ago

      Thanks but I dont generally trust Wikipedia and asking here and getting a good short answer is a lot easier

      • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        “When it comes to software and copyright law, I trust pseudonymous internet randos more than Wikipedia.”

          • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
            6·
            2 days ago

            Having some distrust in Wikipedia is healthy; you certainly shouldn’t take it as the final word about facts you’re depending on the accuracy of. But, it is very often a good starting point for learning about a new subject.

            Spending a minute or two reading that “source code” article (or another version of it which is likely available in your first language) would give you a much better understanding of the concept of source code (which is a prerequisite for understanding what “closed source” means) than any of the answers in this thread so far.

  • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    In addition to what others said about the availability of the source code itself, there’s a whole legal framework around it.

    A company could have code where the source is publicly available, but they still could say that you are not allowed to copy, fork, sell/distribute it. In that case, there wouldn’t physically be anything preventing you from doing it, which sounds strange, until you think about how that’s the exactly how it works for books, music, movies, etc.

    There’s also an in-between for software that’s not publicly open source, but is open source to users. A company could sell you their software, and deliver it to you as open source code.