All I was saying was that *I* don't see the point in worrying about that sort of stuff. To use your analogy of the locked house: if I don't think there is anything worth stealing I won't worry if someone breaks in. All the stuff I think is valuable is locked up in the safest place I can think of: my head. If someone steals an application I wrote, I can always create it again. And probably make it better without the baggage of the original.
Look, I understand people's desire to protect the work they've done. If you're concerned about people screwing around with your code, then by all means protect yourself by obsfucating the code. My logic isn't flawed just because you happen to disagree with it: I'm simply providing a point of view that feels that worrying about people stealing your web applications is pointless because in the end you'll spend more time chasing people down than actually building anything. Troy: Your posts have made me realize that we have very different opinions on a lot of issues surrounding PHP application development (your statement that PHP4 doesn't support object-oriented programming for one), so let's agree to disagree on this issue...and keep the tone of the conversation civil. M: I hope SourceGuardian/Zend Safeguard does the trick but hope that you can find other ways to make money rather than relying on people never figuring out what you are doing. It's ironic that you are benefiting from an open source application but trying to hide what you've done with it. -- Chris Hartjes "The greatest inefficiencies come from solving problems you will never have." -- Rasmus Lerdorf @TheBallpark - http://www.littlehart.net/attheballpark @TheKeyboard - http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
