On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Ilan Finci wrote:
The company I work with is creating executable code we give to potential clients to test.
The code comes as either an executable or a shared library (with a given API the client use to connect it to his application).
Is there a way to protect such executable/library, so it will be hard to do reverse engineering and find out what the algorithms we use? Of course, we protect ourself with patents, but we would like something in the level of protecting the code itself.
This is off topic, as has already been said, but I must add that if the company tries to hide a patented algorithm, the best thing to do is to dissolve the company immediately.
Sorry if you see it off topic, I thought that's this list is also the extend the use of linux in israel, not only about open source. My question was intended to find out if there is a way to do something in linux before my managers force us to switch to windows where they know about things to do what I've asked about.
And as to dissolve the company - why? Can we protect _OUR_ algorithms??? we don't use OTHERS patented algorithms but _OURS_.
Again, sorry about this off topic subject. Please ignore this topic.
Ilan
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