From: Terry Poulin <bigboss64@...>
Date: 2007-09-02T03:59:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Seeing the source

Michel Cabili wrote:
> Phlip wrote:
>> Responding to the thread in general - just put your family jewels into
>> C++
>> behind a Ruby layer, and ship Ruby for the easy stuff that your clients
>> don't need to steal...
>
> That seems a fair solution. Although I'm not that deep into Ruby yet, I
> saw some links concerning creating extensions for Ruby... but in C.
> There must be something equivalent for C++...
>
> That means that when I create for instance my extension (let's say
> "funky_extension"), the file concerning the extension will be compiled
> therefore obfuscated? Is that what you're talking about?
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/100255
http://www.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.9ed3d9924aeb0dcd82ccc6716bbe36ec/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1&path=dsonline/2006/10&file=w5tow.xml&xsl=article.xsl&

Are links that might be of interest if you want to work with C++ and Ruby.


Generally speaking there is no such thing as a way to prevent people from
finding stuff out about your software -- You can make it harder but you can't
stop it completly.

I remember I once had to run a Program in order to get a link as part of a
game I was playing with a friend (the link was hard coded in the exe). When
you don't use WINE, it's a little hard to run Windows software under Unix even
for a game. =/


So I took a dump of the .exe using some of the posix programs on the unix box
and found the URL easy as pie, along with information about the VS project
files and that it was done in classic Visual BASIC. I've never had to use such
software before but I'd reckon it probably would return a fair bit of stuff if
some one wanted to look deep enough into some ones programs. A determined
enough individual will find it, the lazy won't.


I doubt you have much to worry about though, unless you plan on making
millions with one program ;-) -> Lawyers and your countries laws are better
protection !!!


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