How can a software be “Closed source” if I am downlaoding the files on my device?

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Can’t I just read the files to see the code?

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What you’re downloading is the compiled file and not the actual source code. Source code is human readable text you can easily read with a basic text editor. Trying to open a compiled file with a text editor shows scrambled unreadable garbage.

You can possibly get some of the source code with a decompiler for the appropriate language but it isn’t perfect, stuff would be missing, and names are messed up.

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