Why is it so difficult to copy source code that is not “open source”?

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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 program you have is not the source code. It’s an inscrutable collection of data that’s unlabelled and compact. Source code is the actual code of a program that the developers are working with.

If we use a car analogy, the program is a car. The Source code is the car factory.

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