Re: Zend hit (Encoder price)

IMHO, if you want to sell it then it's your right. You coded it, you own it, you get to sell it. But I do know that for $6,000 I sure as hell am not buying it. Maybe for a couple hundred...but $6,000? No way. I'd have to have some seriously proprietary kickass scripts that cost me a huge investment in time/money to develop to blow $6,000 just on keeping people from copying/tweaking them. Even then, they're just scripts. It'd be nice for some encapsulated functionality, say, for database access, but still, for $6,000 + runtime client? Nah, PHP code's just not that complex and for $6,000 I can set up a number of unique users in the database. -Szii At 08:56 AM 1/25/2001 -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote: >Sander Pilon wrote: >> >> >> > >> > Hello, >> > >> > What do you think about Zend position? >> > http://php.weblogs.com/ >> > >> > http://zend.com/phorum/read.php?num=3&id=6277&loc=0&thread=6277 >> > >> >> I think that if Zend wants to sell it for $6000, then they have all right >> to. These guys have worked hard, and they deserve some cash for it. >> >> If people can't afford it at $6000, then that's their problem. Software is >> intellectual property, it shouldn't be free, and authors should be able to >> charge any price for it they want to charge for it. >> > >There is, of course, the Encoder SE available via the commercial >subscription plan... > >The Encoder is designed for (mostly) companies who design, develop >and sell PHP applications. Up to now, PHP has not been a viable >solution for distributed web apps, instead relying on companies >having to either become mini-ASPs, or taking the risk and >distributing the actual PHP scripts. And the sad fact is that >for many companies, they will disregard Licenses or NDAs or >agreements at the drop of a hat. So there has been resistance >to using PHP for apps designed for distro. > >The Enocoder solves that. > >If the solution that the Encoder provides isn't something you need, >they you don't need to pay :) If you want to distribute your >code for free, then most likely you'll be also sending the >text script, so you don't need the Encoder. If you are a small >shop, and want to dip your toes, the Commercial Subscription >allows you to distributed and sell your encoded apps at a >very reasonable price point... > >By the by, my other hat is jim@zend.com, in the interests of >full disclosure. But feedback is always welcome! > >-- >=========================================================================== > Jim Jagielski [|] jim@jaguNET.com [|] > http://www.jaguNET.com/ > "Casanova will have many weapons; To beat him you will > have to have more than forks and flatulence." > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >