Comment on Why can't code be uncompiled?
noli@programming.dev 8 months agoDon’t you have the code in most cases? Like with e.g. freeRTOS? That’s fully open source
Comment on Why can't code be uncompiled?
noli@programming.dev 8 months agoDon’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.