On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:35:38 -0700, W. eWatson wrote: > So you think Python is part of open software in terms of distributing a > "product"?
Python itself *is* open source software. It doesn't *require* you to write open source software. > So I should stick to C, where one can distribute programs w/o > revealing code details No you can't. That's the point that you are missing. When you ship a compiled exe, you are still shipping code, and anyone serious about "ripping off" your ideas will not find that even the tiniest barrier to doing so. Microsoft never ship their code to Windows, and yet virus and malware authors regularly and rapidly analyse it well enough to not only work out what it does and how it does it, but to discover vulnerabilities that even Microsoft don't know about. If MS can't protect their code, what makes you think your .exe file is going to any better protected? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
