Re: PHP Source code protection
| From: | Greg Donald | Date: | Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:22:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP Source code protection | ||
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On 2/7/08, Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> wrote:
> Because who's to say you're selling to one client? If it's your
> Intellectual Property, wouldn't you want to protect it, at least as
> much as possible?
No, I think protecting software in any way is a waste if resources,
especially software you plan to sell to someone. Prohibiting the
buyer from making changes to software they purchased has zero gains
for anyone involved.
If I did want to protect some software I wrote, and I was willing to
pay money to do so, I would want to use something much more capable
than the Zend Encoder. In principle I'd at least want something that
costs less than it's equivalent decoder.
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Greg Donald
http://destiney.com/