[portland] Protecting Intellectual Property In Python Applications

[kirby urner]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>  Python is an interpreted scripting language with outstanding mathematical
> libraries and a great UI development tool in wxPython. Unlike complied
> languages such as C the underlying code is visible to everyone who looks at
> it. This is a problem when the application is unique and proprietary.
>
>  Consider the context. Suppose you wrote an application that analyzed -- in
> real time -- a commercial building's energy use and made adjustments that
> saved 50% of the energy formerly consumed. You want to sell this application
> to building owners and managers but you don't want actual or potential
> competitors to appropriate your intellectual property that figuring out the
> energy savings represents. It's your business, your ideas, and your
> potential source of financial independence. How would you protect the
> underlying source code from being mis-used by a potential competitor when
> you sold your application to clients?
>
>  My situation is analogous and I don't want to start over by re-writing
> everything in C. Your suggestions and recommendations are wanted.
>
> Rich
>

Keep the secret sauce in the cloud?  Open source the client side only?

There are ways to distribute Python without .py source files though,
which others may speak to.

Bittorrent is a wx app yes?

Kirby