On May 21, 9:12 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > 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.
Just because someone has competition doesn't mean they don't think they have secret sauce. I think Aahz's main point was that in his sub- industry, the secret sauce is guarded by not actually letting the customer have access to executable code, other than through the network. Regards, Pat -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
