On Thursday 11 January 2007 17:26, Sachin G Nambiar wrote: > > 4) If your code is so shallow that copying and distributing by > > college kids is going to put you on the streets, u are better off > > searching for the best street corner than running a business. > > I don't agree, > no point in disparaging the code. Simply put, i make X to sell > them. But my is intangible! so it can easily be replicated by C-x, > C-v.
And how exactly do you propose to change that. U see the guys who are attacking your business model dont care about your code. They want the binary. > > I dont care if college kids use it if they are not my customer, but > why screw up my business model becasue these college kids might > just hand it over to soene with enough money and resources to screw > me up. If your business model is screwable rest assured that closing the source makes it more so, by providing returns on your getting screwed. At the same time nobody else is contributing to making your product better - not even u. U are busy trying not to get screwed. > > not ideals, just bad for business! As i said in some other thread the GNU ideals and philopshy makes perfect business sense for everyone except the guys who depend on hiding the code in the mistaken belief that it offers protection. And if FOSS makes sense for the customer who cares wether it makes sense for u or not. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
