From: Neil Stevens <neil@...>
Date: 2004-07-10T15:42:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Secure Ruby Compiler

John Johnson wrote:

> It's a choice. If you want to share your source, that is your decision.
> If you don't, that is also your decision.
> 
> One example of the need to obfuscate code: You have a "power user"
> that continually hoses their system by making changes where they
> shouldn't be. Locked up source would prevent this.

So would changing the permissions on the file and taking root access from
the user.

-- 
Neil Stevens - neil @hakubi.us
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who
are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
                                                 -- Albert Einstein(?)