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On 8/13/06, Ken Bloom <kbloom / gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  From a purely technical standpoint, you're not going to be able to
> protect
> your investment because Ruby is an interpreted language, and can't even be
> compiled to bytecode yet.


 Perhaps what you meant to say is "you're not going to be able to hide your
source code because..." As a very general rule (with few but notable
exceptions) the investment in a new software-based business is dominated by
sales and marketing, not by tech development. Protecting such investments is
a matter of discipline and follow-through, not of technology.

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