python obfuscate

[Ian Kelly]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The only reliable way to prevent a customer from reverse-engineering
>> your software is to not give them the software.
>
> Not really...

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com> wrote:
> It depends on the threat and how competent persons you want to protect your
> code from. If this comes from your boss, chances are he does not know that
> even x86 machine code can be decompiled. So as many has said, this is
> mostly futile business. The only way to protect your code is never to ship
> anything.

How is that last statement different from the one I made above, that
you disagreed with?