From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-10-18T01:39:10+09:00
Subject: [OT] Re: I found way to protect Source Code! :)


On Oct 17, 2008, at 12:10 AM, Sasha Bee wrote:

> Could you suggest anything real to protect the Ruby code? We are still
> working on our project and we use Ruby for it and need to protect the
> code. We are still searching for a good solution for it. We are not  
> just
> Ruby enthusiasts and we are doing a real project. I wish we choose C  
> to
> develop our product and then have no problems in protecting the code.

you know C can be de-compiled right?

>
> But we use Ruby now for many reasons...


if you believe in selling software then you believe in market forces,  
if you believe in market forces you believe that people will not steal  
when the risk to reward ratio doesn't make sense.  consider micro$ and  
it's products: they are obfusicated, with keys, and anyone can  
download them from the internet along with keys in an instant.  same  
goes for photoshop, etc.  anytime the price is so high that the risk  
of sharing is stealing, combined with the risk of getting caught, is  
low, people are going to *immediately* subvert your costly efforts.   
it's so much simpler just to run your software as a service : so far  
no one has bootlegged google...

regards.

a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
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