> Imagine if you were the single-person developer of a small application > that did something quite innovative, and charged a small fee for your > product. Now imagine you were practically forced to make your algorithm > obvious - a couple of months later, Microsoft bring out a freeware > version and destroy your business in an instant. Sure, they and others > can (and have) done that with closed-source products, but you increase > your chances of survival 10-fold if the key algorithms are not obvious.
I think you increase your chances of Microsoft not even being in the same room with your software 100-fold if you release it under.. say GPL. -- damjan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
