That is flawed logic Chris.  That is like saying why put a lock on your
house if there is lock picking kits available and people that can pick
your lock in 10 seconds.  Because a lock on your house will prevent
99.9% of the people from breaking in.  Besides if you are in the
business of making web applications, especially for companies that have
their own development departments, then you want to obfuscate your code
to protect your intellectual property.  This of course deals totally in
the realm of paid for software development.

>From what I can tell on SourceGuardian once you get it setup to work
like you want it on your first project, that to run it on future
projects would only take 5 minutes to setup and run.  So, the
protection of your intellectual property from 99.9% of people and it
taking only 5 minutes to do is well worth the time and investment.

Also Chris when developing web applications for companies that have
people that understand coding, I run into this problem all the time.
You make some code where they can see the actual coding.  Then, they
understand enough coding to get what is going on, but not actually
fully understanding it.  They either make changes or try to implement
new features and then start calling you when things are broken.  So,
protecting your app from a companies DIY coders is also important.

There off the soap box for intellectual property protection and
companies DIY coders hacking up your code, but still blaming you since
the code originated from you.  Case in point is how many people ask for
help and then you find out they have modified their core CakePHP
installation.  They still blame Cake developers for not including what
they wanted instead of trying to understand the CakePHP way to do it.


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