Greetings.
Ever since I heard about open-source source software, I had a question as to how can a piece of software remain completely discreet in its internal functioning even while being present on a computer?
In simple words, all the files of the software are present on the computer, so why can’t the source-code of it be *extracted* in some way?
If that is not possible, then how come crackers/patchers *crack* a software to function without a license? (Because I reckon they would need access to the code in order to modify its functioning.)
Thanks in advance.
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Source is more than just the functional part of a program. It’s also the Humana readable text comments, naming of the functions, naming of the variables that help the source code to be readable
//add a number to a sum
loop (
sum=1
i=1
sum=add_to(sum,i)
i=i+1
)
is much easier to read than
c=func(a,b) (
a+b
)
:_a
a=1
b=1
a=c(a,b)
b=b+1
jump _a
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