where are the program that are written in python?

[Patrick Maupin]

On May 21, 9:12 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
> > In article <eb0c9aec-428f-45a2-a985-5b33906e0... at z17g2000vbd.googlegroups.com>,
> > Patrick Maupin  <pmau... 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.

Just because someone has competition doesn't mean they don't think
they have secret sauce.  I think Aahz's main point was that in his sub-
industry, the secret sauce is guarded by not actually letting the
customer have access to executable code, other than through the
network.

Regards,
Pat