From: Randy Lawrence <jm@...>
Date: 2004-07-07T23:58:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Secure Ruby Compiler

Neil Stevens wrote:
> 
> How much are you offering to pay?  After all, if you're going to be
> obfuscating your code you're clearly not going to be contributing back any
> code.
> 

Are you implying that if a person or company wants to obfuscate (hide) 
their database passwords or their registration key generation algorithms 
from people they don't trust, that they're "clearly not going to be 
contributing back any code"?  Using that logic...please post all your 
passwords here in cleartext so you can prove to us that you're not an 
anti-opensource lackey trying to discredit opensource programmers. :)

If you refer back to my post, you'll see the example scripts I 
specifically mentioned were scripts that contained DATABASE PASSWORDS or 
REGISTRATION KEY ALGORITHMS.

You ask how much am I offering to pay?  For what and to whom?  I'm 
currently just trying to find out what exists out there and considering 
workarounds.  If I don't find anything (commercial or free) and the 
workarounds aren't satisfactory, I'll probably invest the time to 
document requirements sufficient to get bids or to develop it in-house.

If you truly want to know how much other people are willing to pay, look 
up commercial Perl or Java obfuscators for the current pricing (prices 
were probably adjusted to match demand). As I mentioned in the post, 
there is commercial demand for such products.

Best regards.