Re: [PHP4BETA] Byte-coding or protecting

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, operator wrote: > What is the general feeling about people trying to keep their code secret? > I mean, here is PHP, an awesome tool that is open source, as well as > apache, and all the libs and helpers and API all just given to us for the > common good. And then there are peoplke who want to use those free and > open tools to create closed and proprietary programs. If PHP and Apache > were like that then hardly any of us would even be here. > > To me it seems rude to try to lock up your code. > What does anyone else think? I think that you need to wake up and smell the coffee, so to say. :) This is not an idealized world where all the software is free and so on. I don't see anything wrong with people using PHP to create commercial software that they want to sell. -Andrei Some people try to achieve immortality through their work, others through their children. I hope to achieve immortality by not dying. -- Woody Allen