I think that is a good point. Certainly try your hardest to protect your IP, but you must not rely on any technology alone to protect your IP - you need a solid contract.
On the other hand, if any relationship is going to work, there is always a level of trust. Yes, you can sue, but, knowing from hard experience, either you or your opponent goes down before money is collected. Paolo > -----Original Message----- > From: Rich Wild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 05 September 2002 10:09 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] .cfm enryption > > > > What do the rest of you do, > > its a hard one. the best you could do from a legal standpoint > is make sure > the contract you have with the customer clearly states the > ownership of IP > etc so that if they do reuse it then they'll be liable. > > What we do is instead of selling solutions which we give to > the customer, we > sell services. > > so all our services are hosted on our servers and the bits > that we don't > want to give customers source read access to, we lock down. > we state this in > our t&cs and contracts etc. this works quite well. They're not buying > software, they're buying access to the *usage* of software. > > btw I don't think cfdecrypt can decrypt cf5 files, although > looking at the > shrewm notice board, there seem to be people claiming they > can (for a fee). > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Garry Mills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 05 September 2002 10:10 > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: [ cf-dev ] .cfm enryption > > > > > > We're rolling out a product to a customer soon, and bluntly > > speaking we > > don't want them to be able to copy the app onto another server. > > > > Know about cfencrypt, and also know about cfdecrypt and > > whilst it will stop > > the numpties getting into it doubt the tech department will > find it as > > difficult > > > > A google search for coldfusion dongle returns a load of > links to crack > > files... > > > > What do the rest of you do, or is cfentrpt our only option? > > (oh, and I tried > > CF encrypted files on a Cobalt once and it didn't seem to > > work, although > > thats a separate issue) > > > > Garry > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
