How to protect intellectual property? InTouch application

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Hi everyone, 
 Due to changes for InTouch (Free Dev) system integrators are now concerned that end customers might manipulate the applications without the SI knowing it. They might even be able to steal know-how. What is the current best practice to protect the intellectual property for SIs? 
 I was thinking about publishing but the publishing process seems to be very old. User rights in the customer's environment might be not relevant as well. 
 Any other ideas? 
 Thanks Peter

Richard Köhlerstrand · Answer

If you want to protect your application in the way that you want to reduce the possibility to edit the solution, you could remove the .win files from the application directory, this has to be done after you start window viewer so that the runtime versions of the windows has been compiled (.wvw files). 
 But if the application needs to be recompiled, or edited then you need to make sure to have a version that is complete with all files available. 
 Also wen you publish your application it will only include the runtime versions of Industrial Graphics, thus making it hard to modify them. 
 Another way is to remove the development license, or not install the Window Maker, at least then it is not possible to start it to try and make changes on that node.

How to protect intellectual property? InTouch application

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