Your latest post seems to me far more appropriate to the very intelligent person that you are. Seeing that you develop closed apps 9-5, you must therefore understand that is sometimes necesary in order to feed your family. As someone else noted, not all of us can mak a living from the royalties of on book, like Larry has managed to do. Myself, I write open source code 40 hours per week and make my living doing installation and configuration of my software. In the 13 years I've been coding, I've written precisely 3 proprietary apps. The other hundereds of programs have been open source, even little utility programs like this obfuscater that I write for my own use - as soon as I wrote it I found a place to post the source for others to use. I was then criticized for making my obfuscater available to you and others. 2 of the 3 programs that I have kept proprietary have been implementations of new security methodologies that I have developed. Given the precise nature of these two specific programs their utility is greatly enhanced by making their operation non-obvious. (That may not apply to a lot of security schemes, but in these two specific cases it's true.) Both have also been methodologies that I have spent months developing and must be paid for if I'm to pay my rent. Specically, this script I'm obfuscating now has taken me close to a year to develop. During that time my rent has gotten 3 months past due. If I'm to be around to develop anything, I have to have users of this software pay for it. That's reality. These scripts are designed to let a company protect their confidential data. If they want to save thousands or millions by using my software, I think it's reasonable to expect them to pony up $50 to help cover the cost of development. It's also a fact that other companies have attempted to steal both of my security technologies while my products were still in beta. That's not a theory - that's hard reality for me. My family is about to be homeless while some jerk is making big money stealing my technology that I spent a year developing. I don't intend to make that any easier than necesary. It would be nice if everyone were trustworthy, but that's not reality. So while you are taking a break from your full time job developing proprietary software please don't spend that precious time criticizing me for giving away my obfuscater. I would perhaps be more receptive to your ideas of you actually helped someone else by suggesting ways to obfuscate that one line, but if you are only here to stroke your own ego and show off then please share your thoughts with your fellow full time proprietary coders around the office and not bother those of us who eek out a living giving our work away. Ray
In reply to Re: Re^3: An obfuscation script, and a question
by Anonymous Monk
in thread An obfuscation script, and a question
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