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From: Brian Bischof (brian_at_nospam.bischofsystems.com)
Date: 03/02/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:15:36 -0800

I'm amazed at how paranoid people are of getting their code stolen. When I
used to program with Delphi, all the components I bought came with the
source code by default. I loved it! Often I would find a bug and be able to
tell tech support the module and line number where the bug was. The
third-party Delphi component developers didn't sit around worrying about who
might steal their code or trying to obfuscate it. Giving out the source code
was the accepted way of doing things. You know what - these companies still
made money and grew.

Brian Bischof

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"Steven H" <smorf-REMOVE-@bigfoot.com - wont work anyway ;)> wrote in
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> On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 02:55:15 GMT, MustRide wrote:
>
> > I can see your point of view, the thought of secure code does raise an
> > important question....will my code be secure from reverse-engineering?
>
> seriously - why is this such an issue.
>
> think of it logically, what sort of people will buy your software, what
> sort of people will actively search for a way to bypass any security in
> your software - are your prospective customers people who will do this.
>
> in all likelyhood they are not
>
> your average jo doesnt have a clue about crax.ws (or whatever the flavor
of
> the month crack search engine is). people who do generally have more of a
> clue about what "other" things these cracks will do to a persons
computer -
> there aint nothing stopping that keygen, crack you ran to get a cd-key for
> MS Office 2003 from installing a backorriface server on your box.
>
> as for your IP, the java community have delt with this "issue" and figured
> out that you can either obsfuctercate (however you spell it) or not worry
> about it - but then again the java community is more OSS minded than the
> microsoft developer community - which is niether a good or bad thing.
>
> it is your IP so you can guard against curious eyes if you so wish - but
> what is the big secret.
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Steven H - B.I.T. Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand
> .net Geek

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