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To: Tell It Right

“places like GitHub that’s not fully open source (where you see all of the underlying source code).”

I’m a simple user of GitHub for source code. I decide what’s up there in my account (which is all of it). What do you mean by “where you see all of the source code”. Doesn’t each user decide that?


6 posted on 02/19/2024 12:06:31 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline
When I've looked up libraries in GitHub in the past (after finding others talk about libraries from blogs and such), I could either download the compiled code or download the source code. Say, if it was in C#, some sources had only the .dll libraries that I could download and reference in my code but never see the source code. But some sources had the source code in C# or VB that I could also download and put into my project(s), but I'd unlike the .dll's I could see the source code myself.

It's been maybe 8 or so years since I've used GitHub (the team I'm in now buys 3rd party libraries so I get our "shared" code from those vendors directly). But that's my experience.

7 posted on 02/19/2024 12:18:47 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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