It’s been in my mind if we are using the software/program or even hardware of a tech company, we can play around, install-unsinstall and more. Then how is it so difficult for someone to “unhide” the source code that the device uses? Technically the code is in the device somewhere hidden in it, so it’s there, but still, it’s almost impossible to obtain the source code. How do they achieve this so no one copies their code?
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The coding the programmer does is not word for word what goes to the computer. The source files are basically compiled into another language, which is then served to the consumer.
A very broken down way for me to think of this is like summarization. When you summarize a story, you are omitting a lot of details in an attempt to gather the ‘bigger picture’ or the core of what’s actually in the text and putting it in to your words. If you give this summarization to somebody without them reading the full text, they will not be able to recreate a word for word copy of the original text because the summarization uses different wording and has omitted a lot of details. Their attempt at a recreation of the source material will typically either have things wrong or straight-up missing.
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