In the past (C/C++ days) we used a lot of third-party binary-only packages like SmartHeap for memory management and LeadTools for imaging. (I like to think of that as the "Programmer's Paradise" era.) I haven't used binary-only packages in many years, but I do wonder how a company like LeadTools might make their offering available to Go developers. Presumably, they don't want to release their source code. It might be informative to get the opinions of companies like that.
Mike On Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 7:28:23 PM UTC-4, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 4:02 PM, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan > <vdha...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > This means source-code is the only way to share the work. When it > companies > > to sharing/selling their work on top of which others can build their > > app/solution, this won't work. Doesn't this seem like a big restriction? > > Particularly, computer industry being heavily dependent on IP rights > (and > > where trust is low)? Wouldn't this deter such companies from adopting > Go? > > For contrast, I have heard of providing binary only distribution even > within > > the same company. > > The question is: is anybody actually doing this? Is anybody seriously > thinking about it? > > Ian > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
