Re:OOSMOS – The Object-Oriented State Machine Operating System
by sarah_jul_scott on Friday September 04, 2015 @04:37PM
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Interesting. Since you could just run the C preprocessor on it (with, e.g. gcc -E) to expand all the macros, that seems like an unusually poor method of obfuscation.
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Re:OOSMOS – The Object-Oriented State Machine Operating System
by unabst on Friday September 04, 2015 @04:58PM
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In fact, if this falls under trade secret, then whoever figures it out is free to own it. Not even sure copyright would protect the original if all they are publishing is obfuscated code. If they wanted to get serious about IP, software patents are probably the only option. Otherwise they shouldn't be releasing the code in any form IMHO.