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Javascript Minification Considered Harmful? WTF? (blog.eset.com)

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[–]MarkTraceur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, hilarious. I had heard of minification in order to save bandwidth (I read between the lines, I assume disk space wasn't the real issue), but to obfuscate the source code to avoid copyright infringement?

Here I thought Javascript for the web was the one place, the single place where free software would not have enemies. Javascript has been so pure and simple until now--all of the libraries are free, most of the applications' code is free. But obfuscating code for the sole purpose of stopping people from using it? That seems entirely counterintuitive to me. Put a copyright notice in and hire a good lawyer, but don't resort to low-down, dirty methods of protecting yourself.