On 26-Oct-2000 Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> you may own the copyright to the "concept", but, whats to stop someone
> that sees your code (its all there) and just takes it, rewrites it a
> bit.. and closes the sources, and claims they wrote it all themselves.
> so much for "owning" the concept.
Why live in fear of such things about software. Why should an author be
worried about imposters and people stealing his/her code. What are they
gonna do, sell it? Are they going to put it on their resume and BS their way
into the same jobs I am going for?
Yet another opportunity to make money from OSS -- sue the bastards :) Thanks!
>> There isn't a benefit to keeping software a secret any more.
>
> why? trade-secrets/patents is what gets investors.
Software is not just some static one size fits all thing, you know that.
Sometimes it is the 10% of customization (feature creep, not incompatibility)
for which businesses pay. Why keep the base product a secret, it makes no
sense!
Besides, investors is only a way to get capital. *Making* money requires a
talent pool and contracts. What better way can there be to get a contract
than to prove that your software actually works and is popular.
> jimmy software (CE/PPC) is known to produce awesome games.. they have
> "focus".. if they opensourced, they wouldn't have that focus. call it
> greedy.. but.. thats business!
That's a crutch that jimmy software has to live with. They painted
themselves into that business model.
> lets move OSS vs PayForPlay to the forum that should have it?
Hey, I'm just happy to not have 20 reposts of the same message every day :)
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