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Is secret code impossible with VM & Bytecodes?

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From: Cem Redif
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 00:00
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Hi All,

In languages like C++, you could make your code secret, since it's
compiled to a machine code of a specific operating system.  However,
with Java, if you compile your program to bytecodes, there are good
decompilers out there, that can reproduce your code in neat format
(without the comments of course).  Hence, my question is: what can you
do to make you code secret, so that if your competitors get hold of it
they can't have a peek !?  For example, if a company called
AccountSoftware developed a package called AccountWizard in Java.  What
stops a competitor company from purchasing AccountWizard and view the
code via a decompiler?

Any info. would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Djem.
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