Comment on Why can't code be uncompiled?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 months agoIn a way, yes. But it really creates a mess when the linker starts sharing code between your code of which you have sources, and then jumps in the middle of system code for which you don’t have sources. And a pain in the whatever to debug.
noli@programming.dev 8 months ago
Don’t you have the code in most cases? Like with e.g. freeRTOS? That’s fully open source
Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
For a number of reasons people use commercial OSes in this world, too.
noli@programming.dev 8 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@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes, it is closed source, but you can buy a “source license”. Which is painfully expensive.