From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2008-10-21T07:04:45+09:00
Subject: Re: I found way to protect Source Code! :)

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On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 05:07:59AM +0900, Alexey Petrushin wrote:
> Thanks for advices :)
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> So, as I understood, there are:
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> - Software as a Service, with owned hosting.
> Yes! This is the best one, but sometimes clients wants something=20
> 'physically' tangible :).
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> - JRuby Compiler (http://wiki.jruby.org/wiki/JRuby_Compiler)
> It's fully finished and ready to use.
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> Translates <name>.rb =3D> <name>.class and because it's not one to one=20
> mapping there is an information lost, that can be seen as the=20
> obfuscation.
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> There is no .class to .rb decompiler, and (though, I'm not sure) these=20
> .class files cannot be decompiled even to .java ones.
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> - Zenobfuscate (http://blog.zenspider.com/zenobfuscate/)
> Has some limitations.
> I've choose Ruby for all it's goodnesses, and don't want to give back=20
> any of it. I'll better leave the product open than will agree to any=20
> limitation.
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> - rubyencoder (rubyencoder.com)
> Somehow they do it, don't know though how.

=2E . . or come up with a business model that doesn't rely on the
government trying to subvert natural laws.


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> It seems, that JRuby Compiler is really what i need :).
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> I just want to rise barrier, to buy time if some company will try to=20
> build a copy-product. For sure they'll can reverse engineer it, but not=
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> so fast as if they will have original sources.
> There is no need to protect from hackers & cracks, my product will be=20
> free (but not open).

So . . . what's the point of obscuring the code?

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Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
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