On 05/03/13 17:25, Kumar McMillan wrote: > I think there is a valid use case in protecting source code when a > merchant is selling an app. If the app can't be protected, how can > you sell it?
What do you mean by "protect"? This is the DeCSS fallacy - encrypting or obfuscating something doesn't stop someone copying it. It' just as easy to make a copy of the string "FCv46vszgrf" as it is to make a copy of the string "Hello". > And if you can't sell an app then you can't build a > business on offering something compelling to the user. This obviously > isn't the only business model for apps but it's one that the open web > should support better than it does today, IMO. The open web should support selling apps. And we have copyright laws (and licensing servers) which are designed, to varying degrees of effectiveness, to stop people copying paid apps without paying. But the best way to sell apps is to make it easier to pay for them than to pirate them. Mozilla should not join the list of companies attempting to make water run uphill by stopping the Internet from being the fabulously efficient machine for copying things that it is. All obfuscating code does is stop people being able to read the code for the apps they are already running and have paid for. And that's a great shame. Gerv _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
