Re: All Survey leading to PHP
| From: | Per Jessen | Date: | Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:48:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: All Survey leading to PHP | ||
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Nathan Rixham wrote:
> Protecting source: I've got a very simple view point on this, I use
> linux servers, I can go into the source of everything on the entire
> machine and modify or copy it,
How about Acrobat Reader or ATI graphics drivers? There's plenty of
closed source products about on Linux.
> so why then should my application built using open source software,
> running on an open source platform, through an open source web server
> with an open source database behind it choose to use closed source?
If you've got a competitive edge, you don't want to hand it to your
competition free of charge. It's as easy as that.
/Per Jessen, Zürich