I see a lot about source codes being leaked and I’m wondering how it that you could make something like an exact replica of Super Mario Bros without the source code or how you can’t take the finished product and run it back through the compilation software?

  • noli
    20·
    10 months ago

    Don’t you have the code in most cases? Like with e.g. freeRTOS? That’s fully open source

    • Treczoks
      20·
      10 months ago

      For a number of reasons people use commercial OSes in this world, too.

      • noli
        10·
        10 months ago

        Does commercial mean closed source in this context though? It seems like a waste of resources not to provide the source code for an rtos.

        Considering how small in size they tend to be + with their power/computational constraints I can’t imagine they have very effective DRM in place so it shouldn’t take that much to reverse engineer.

        May as well just provide the source under some very restrictive license.

        • Treczoks
          10·
          10 months ago

          Yes, it is closed source, but you can buy a “source license”. Which is painfully expensive.