I don't think they see this as a problem. If people really want to decompile the...

popoxdev 78 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How does JetBrains protect their IDE Java ...

I don't think they see this as a problem. If people really want to decompile the code they could. Most of it is open source already and the codebase is very large to make any competing product out of it.