i like playing games and reading the code afterwards! its a very efficient way for me to learn so yes its a serious question
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Well, my answer was of course just my take on why source code is not typically released. It makes no sense for a typical user computer. The necessary development tools to compile the code are missing.
It is a bit different on Linux. There you could have dependencies and all and a makefile to actually distribute your game as source code. And there were times when this actually made a lot of sense, since there are different architectures and such, so you would have had to compile for each target architecture - or just distribute the source code.
It also depends on the type of source code you are interested in. Unless you code your basic stuff yourself, you will probably use an engine or another.