where are the program that are written in python?

[Ben Finney]

aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:

> In article <eb0c9aec-428f-45a2-a985-5b33906e0446 at z17g2000vbd.googlegroups.com>,
> Patrick Maupin  <pmaupin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >There are a lot of commercial programs written in Python.  But any
> >company which thinks it has a lock on some kind of super secret sauce
> >isn't going to use Python, because it's very easy to reverse engineer
> >even compiled Python programs.  
>
> That's not always true.  Both my employer (Egnyte) and one of our main
> competitors (Dropbox) use Python in our clients.  We don't care much
> because using our servers is a requirement of the client.

Doesn't that mean those companies don't fit the above description? That
is, neither of them “thinks it has a lock on some kind of super secret
sauce” in the programs. So they don't seem to be counter-examples.

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Ben Finney