Quotes About Source code

Just in case you still don't fully understand the need for a compiler, your source code is like the raw materials that your computer needs. The compiler is like a machine that converts those raw materials to a final product, a compiled program that the computer can understand.

Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.

Jason: Apparently the leaked Windows source code contains some pretty naughty language. Peter: Naughty language? Jason: Curse words in the comments. Peter: So when people are swearing at their PC, it's actually swearing back? Jason: Clever Microsoft.

the bank had expanded its services in recent years to offer anonymous computer source code escrow services and faceless digitized backup.

Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users don't have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.

Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can't change it since they don't have the source code. They can't study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power.