I agree.. Also if you have a way of distributing binarys, you can release the source with it.. Much like a lot of people do already with binaries for *nix ..
That way you have a binary, that people can use/run without hacking it apart, and coming back to you with "I broke it, fix it for me!" , and they can look at the source (if you want) to see how its done .. Best of both worlds! -----Original Message----- From: Rasmus Resen Amossen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Optional source scrambeling > Why would you want to scramble your source from other people. Unless > you have a company behind you making you scramble it then i just think > of it as selfish. That is NOT the issue! It should be an option. And then don't use it if you don't want to. > where do you think php/zend would be if they only distributed binarys > (OpenSource baby!). Is that rellevant? Where do you think Mazda would be if they did not earn money from selling their cars? Let's all work for free, full time, and then quit our normal job. Not. It's a great thing with open source and all should participate if they have time and money to it. I suggested to implement the enscrambler my self, for examble. But to be able to quit my normal job and only earn money on my own projects I have to make sure, that these are not copied uncontrolled. To keep the linux-world 100% open source is naive. Face it. 99% is more realistic. If we want more large applications (some maybe commercial) made in php we NEED a scramble feature to ensure lager companies that their products will not be copied. My point: It is great that you, with open source, can add features and so on, as much as you want. But that should in the other way NOT imply that it would be impossible to earn money. But that was not the discussion. The discussion was HOW I could implement it... -- Rasmus Resen Amossen | stud.mat.dat at the University of Copenhagen Jagtvej 120, -244 | http://www.math.ku.dk/muh 2200 Kbh. N | http://www.ruf.adr.dk -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
