From: Shadowfirebird <shadowfirebird@...>
Date: 2011-03-15T20:02:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Doubts about Ruby and JRuby

For what it's worth, if you are that worried about your customers making away with your code, then perhaps it would be better to stay away from all scripting languages: Not just Ruby, but Python, PHP, Lua...

On the other hand, you should bear in mind that:

* the vast majority of your customers will not have the knowledge or the desire to steal your source code.

* The few that do are likely to have to spend quite a lot of effort to do so -- maybe as much as writing from scratch, when you consider that...

* ... just copying large bits of your code won't help them, because you'll easily be able to spot that and prosecute (or threaten to).

* Even compiled languages can be decompiled.

Just my 10c.