Re: Question on Commercial Offerings

Thomas Deliduka wrote:

I don't know quite how to word that subject but here's what we want to do. We have a shopping cart softwre (like a million others out there) which based in windows NT with a COM+ object to guard the source code. We mainly offer this product to our hosting customers as an add-on solution to their hosting. Well, we want to migrate this to PHP/MySQL and I don't know how to protect the source code. My boss is suggesting to make a DSO but I really am not a C programmer to do all that. I want to make it all in PHP but somehow protect the code. Any ideas?

We're in a similar situation, but probably will simply give the source code with what we sell, and have purchasers agree to a moderately restrictive license. They will have the source code if they need to make changes for their own projects, but won't be able to resell/redistribute. Giving people access to the source code can actually be a positive to some people. Yes, you may lose some potential sales, but you'll gain sales to people coming over from more restrictive carts - the kind where you don't get the source code. :) HTH Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com/php PHP Training Courses 734-480-9961