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No, you can see the source, but thats not the same as "open source".
by stephenson 14y ago
No, you can see the source, but thats not the same as "open source".
- nkassis 14y agothis is an important distinction. Everything on the web is copyrighted and you can't just go and grab images/html/css/javascript without permission from the copyright holder. And view source isn't going to show you much when looking at sites like Gmail where the code is generated by a compiler that makes it as obtuse and unreadable as machinely possible.
- rmc 14y agoExactly. Think of it like a book. You can see the source code of a book (i.e. the individual letters), but you cannot copy it (without permission)