From: Tim Becker <a2800276@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T03:12:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing a interpreter extension

On 5/22/06, Kris Leech <krisleech@interkonect.com> wrote:
> Mainly I want to be able to sell ruby/rails applications without doing a
> hosted only solution (like basecamp), if I was 37signals I would want to
> sell the application as you would desktop software...

That doesn't really explain why you want to  encrypt code:

* if people copy your software illegally, they can do so whether the
source code is available or not.

* if the code you want to release is so incredibly ingenius that
people will want to illegally steal your IP to integrate into their
own software, you can a.) sue them b.) get a patent (US only) c.) a
little bit of obfuscating won't keep them out anyhow.

   -tim