>If your application is a low price product which is just worth to
>manufacture in high volume production (so high volume sales) you would
>probably have not to get concern about code protect.

        Yes and no.

        Perhaps you are a small manufacturer hoping to use this
        new 'high volume' product to grow your business.

        You would be very concerned about an existing large
        manufacturer ripping off your product and using their
        economies of scale to immediately swamp you in both
        quantity and price in the marketplace.

>Generaly, cheap and simple applications means *simple* code. If you spend
>your energy/money in a highly secure hardware you will be just getting a
>higer production cost. For anyone being able to compete with you clonning
>the product can be easier to reverse-eng the application and then write his
>OWN CODE.

        Yes and no.

        Perhaps you have a novel method for implementing a
        previously difficult process that allows you to use
        a simple microprocessor (thus low cost).  Being novel
        it is difficult to reverse engineer without access
        to details of the method (that is, the code).

        You would be very concerned aobout losing your cost
        benefit over your competitors by them reading your code.

___Bob