IMHO, if you want to sell it then it's your right. You coded it, you own
it, you
get to sell it.
But I do know that for $6,000 I sure as hell am not buying it.
Maybe for a couple hundred...but $6,000? No way. I'd have to have
some seriously proprietary kickass scripts that cost me a huge investment
in time/money to develop to blow $6,000 just on keeping people from
copying/tweaking them. Even then, they're just scripts. It'd be nice for
some encapsulated functionality, say, for database access, but
still, for $6,000 + runtime client? Nah, PHP code's just not that complex
and for $6,000 I can set up a number of unique users in the database.
-Szii
At 08:56 AM 1/25/2001 -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote:
>Sander Pilon wrote:
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > What do you think about Zend position?
>> > http://php.weblogs.com/
>> > http://zend.com/phorum/read.php?num=3&id=6277&loc=0&thread=6277
>> >
>>
>> I think that if Zend wants to sell it for $6000, then they have all right
>> to. These guys have worked hard, and they deserve some cash for it.
>>
>> If people can't afford it at $6000, then that's their problem. Software is
>> intellectual property, it shouldn't be free, and authors should be able to
>> charge any price for it they want to charge for it.
>>
>
>There is, of course, the Encoder SE available via the commercial
>subscription plan...
>
>The Encoder is designed for (mostly) companies who design, develop
>and sell PHP applications. Up to now, PHP has not been a viable
>solution for distributed web apps, instead relying on companies
>having to either become mini-ASPs, or taking the risk and
>distributing the actual PHP scripts. And the sad fact is that
>for many companies, they will disregard Licenses or NDAs or
>agreements at the drop of a hat. So there has been resistance
>to using PHP for apps designed for distro.
>
>The Enocoder solves that.
>
>If the solution that the Encoder provides isn't something you need,
>they you don't need to pay :) If you want to distribute your
>code for free, then most likely you'll be also sending the
>text script, so you don't need the Encoder. If you are a small
>shop, and want to dip your toes, the Commercial Subscription
>allows you to distributed and sell your encoded apps at a
>very reasonable price point...
>
>By the by, my other hat is [EMAIL PROTECTED], in the interests of
>full disclosure. But feedback is always welcome!
>
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