From: Florian Frank <flori@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T10:15:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Where's the bytecode from Ruby 1.9

James Dinkel wrote:
> Waitaminute.  So if I have a paid-for application from some company and 
> they wrote it in java, it would be possible for me to decompile it into 
> the sourcecode?

Yes, it's also a lot of fun to do that.

> I figured there must be some way to hide it, otherwise 
> proprietary software wouldn't use it?

Not, really. There are obfuscators available, that rename classes, 
methods, etc. but this merely increases the challenge a bit.

-- 
Florian Frank