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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There have been some really good analogies but I want to give a bit more insight… might be slightly ELI10:
Code is just human readable instructions. But the process of “compiling” code is converting those human readable instructions into machine readable instructions. And it’s really tough to understand those machine readable instructions because it’s just 0s and 1s.
So if I hand you a file that is a long list of 0s and 1s, you can use it because your *machine* understands it. But for you to figure it out would take a lot of time and effort (though possible to a degree)
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