> You can't keep the functionality of your software a secret and still distribute it. This is ultimately true of any product. But if you distribute closed-sour

> You can't keep the functionality of your software a secret and still distribute it. This is ultimately true of any product. But if you distribute closed-source, compiled software, the only way to discover the secrets is the same as with any product: reverse engineering. Furthermore, a high percentage of software is never distributed, but exists only as back-end code, or as proprietary software only ever run on-prem.