Protect Python Source

[Lothar Scholz]

gerson.kurz at t-online.de (Gerson Kurz) wrote in message news:<3dc24583.11506984 at news.t-online.de>...

> Lets imagine this: you are a small company of specialists that writes
> some python module. You are in direct company with a big, possibly
> very big company. They do not have any experts in your area (they are
> a big company, so they do lots of stuff besides the area you are in).
> So, they just take your code, because its readily available - the
> source is right there in the installed directory. Chances are that

I don't think they will do this. I never heard about anything like this before.

> you, the small company, will never live long enough to see the end of
> a lawsuit. Plus, lawsuits can be very *very* expensive. Plus, if
> you're a big company, chances are your lawyers are just more and
> better than mine. Plus, the best thing you can expect to come out from
> a lawsuit against a big company is - an agreement. Does the term
> Microsoft anti-monopoly lawsuit ring a bell? 

Yes but this only means that the US american law system sucks.