Re: [PHP4BETA] Byte-coding or protecting
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:04:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PHP4BETA] Byte-coding or protecting | ||
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, R. P. Channing Rodgers, M.D. wrote:
> time. In a certain sense, the proprietary code folks are always
> fighting a losing battle, in which the best they can hope for is a small
> amount of time to make money until a freebie version of their product
> appears. So although I plan to stay on the "open source" side of the
> fence, I think we all have better things to do than argue with a
> minority of commercially minded folk who want to keep their work
> secret. Let them. If they come up with some clever general ideas,
> it still contributes to the overall advancements of creating good open
> source PHP applications...
Except I still haven't seen one Open Source word processor/graphics
packages/etc. that has either total feature parity with or exceeds its
commercial counterpart.
-Andrei
"When I get a little money, I buy books;
and if any is left I buy food and clothes." -- Erasmus