On Friday, April 11, 2014 12:13:47 PM UTC-4, Sturla Molden wrote: > Mark H Harris <harrismh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Obfuscation (hiding) of your source is *bad*, usually done for one > > of the following reasons: > > > 1) Boss is paranoid and fears loss of revenues due to intellectual > > property theft. > > 2) Boss is ignorant of reverse engineering strategies available to > > folks who want to get to the heart of the matter. > > 3) Boss and|or coders are embarrassed for clients (or other coders) > > to see their art, or lack thereof. Sometimes this is also wanting to > > hide the fact that the product really isn't "worth" the price being > > charged for it?!? > > You can also add fear of patent trolls to this list. Particularly if you > are in a startup and cannot afford a long battle in court. You can quickly > go bankrupt on attorney fees. > > Sturla
You're saying that fear of patent trolls is yet another bad reason to obfuscate your code? But then it almost sounds like you think it is a justifiable reason. So I don't think I understand your point. Whether a patent troll has your original code or not has no bearing on the patent infringement. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list