a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > In article > <eb0c9aec-428f-45a2-a985-5b33906e0...@z17g2000vbd.googlegroups.com>, > Patrick Maupin <pmau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >There are a lot of commercial programs written in Python. But any > >company which thinks it has a lock on some kind of super secret sauce > >isn't going to use Python, because it's very easy to reverse engineer > >even compiled Python programs. > > That's not always true. Both my employer (Egnyte) and one of our main > competitors (Dropbox) use Python in our clients. We don't care much > because using our servers is a requirement of the client.
Doesn't that mean those companies don't fit the above description? That is, neither of them “thinks it has a lock on some kind of super secret sauce” in the programs. So they don't seem to be counter-examples. -- \ “The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must | `\ not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.” | _o__) —Albert Einstein | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
