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We have a -government- customer that wants to buy our code so they can run the program themselves. We are using some code that we consider proprietary in nature (I.E. we developed internally how to obtain results that they seek) We want to hide that or lock their ability to understand what we do, as to retain other programs with said company - but out of good grace sell a program that is obsoleting so they may run it at their pleasure.

What sort of sneaky sneaky tricks do you guys have to bury code deep?
I was thinking of a pulling the code from a text file (have never done this). But I'm also not sure how robust that can be.
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  • We have a -government- customer that wants to buy our code so they can run the program themselves. We are using some code that we consider proprietary in nature (I.E. we developed internally how to obtain results that they seek) We want to hide that or lock their ability to understand what we do, as to retain other programs with said company - but out of good grace sell a program that is obsoleting so they may run it at their pleasure.

    What sort of sneaky sneaky tricks do you guys have to bury code deep?
    I was thinking of a pulling the code from a text file (have never done this). But I'm also not sure how robust that can be.


    They're probably just trying to buy the time savings by buying the work instead of developing it themselves. If you allow time to go you'd probably be out of a potential buy. Certainly something to think about but your creation is YOUR creation do as you wish with it.
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  • We have a -government- customer that wants to buy our code so they can run the program themselves. We are using some code that we consider proprietary in nature (I.E. we developed internally how to obtain results that they seek) We want to hide that or lock their ability to understand what we do, as to retain other programs with said company - but out of good grace sell a program that is obsoleting so they may run it at their pleasure.

    What sort of sneaky sneaky tricks do you guys have to bury code deep?
    I was thinking of a pulling the code from a text file (have never done this). But I'm also not sure how robust that can be.


    They're probably just trying to buy the time savings by buying the work instead of developing it themselves. If you allow time to go you'd probably be out of a potential buy. Certainly something to think about but your creation is YOUR creation do as you wish with it.
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