How to protect python code ?

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Mon Apr 7 19:19:19 EDT 2003


"Kyler Laird" <Kyler at news.Lairds.org> wrote in message
news:h469m-4et.ln1 at news.lairds.org...
> claird at lairds.com (Cameron Laird) writes:
>
> >I exaggerate a bit.  There are indeed legitimate roles
> >for obfuscating technologies.  Managers think they're
> >far more common than is true, though, and programmers
> >far, FAR overestimate the objective value of source
> >code.
>
> Hey, I program and I think source code is *extremely*
> valuable!  It's rare that I can be convinced to use
> software for which I can not get the source code.  I
> certainly wouldn't ever want to *depend* on software
> that I can't control.
>
> What kind of business *pays* to become dependent on
> software they don't control?!
>

Can we say "Microsoft customers"? "Oracle customers"? ... the list is
endless!

regards
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