Zitat von
mquadrat:
@Khabarakh
Neue Algorithmen wird sicher keiner von uns erfinden. Aber schützenswert ist im Prinzip alles, was kommerziell entwickelt wird. Wenn man mehrere 100.000 EUR für die Entwicklung investiert hat, möchte man nicht, dass jemand das in fünf Minuten dekompiliert
Aber es bleibt doch die Frage, ob es ihm überhaupt etwas nützt. Es wäre nicht unwahrscheinlich, dass man zum Abschreiben und Umändern am Ende doppelt so lange wie der "ehrliche" Entwickler braucht
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http://yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/obfuscation.html
Many developers have been shocked by how easy it is to decompile their code, and fear that it means they no longer have any way of protecting their intellectual property. In practice, I don't believe the problem is nearly as big as it's claimed to be. Firstly, intellectual property is almost always within the design of a system, not in the individual bits of implementation. If you design a world-beating application, chances are that the reason it's world-beating will be obvious to anyone who uses it anyway. Only a very few areas in computing are really all about which algorithms are used, and how they're implemented - areas such as sound and video compression.
Have you ever tried to read a large amount of code without any documentation, comments or meaningful local variable names? In my experience, it can be hard enough to understand code when you do have design documents and comments, let alone without it. Now, let's make it even harder...