Hi Michael, I just wrote a lot to reply but eventually decided to simply say: Thanks very much! I think I get your point.
Sean On Feb 26, 4:41 pm, Michael Pavling <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 February 2011 01:51, Weichao Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 25 February 2011 12:47, Sean W. Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Hi fellows, > > >> > I'm starting a small company developing a SNS website and we are using > >> > RoR. The concern we have right now is that we don't want each of our > >> > developers get the entire Rails code base of our project. > > How would you expect the developers to be able to *run* the Rails > application to develop for it, if they don't have the code? > > >> Employ reputable contractors (I presume it is contractors that you are > >> talking about) and get them to sign non-disclosure agreements. > > I agree wholeheartedly. And as a flip side, as a contractor, I would > be highly suspicious of any employer who wanted to start a > relationship by being so suspicious of me that that want to > micro-manage the sections of code I have access to. > Remember Sean, Rails is a nice open OO framework - unless one has > access to jump around and refactor chunks of it, it's not going to be > easy to work with. > > > In my experience, it's not really a good idea to allow every employee to get > > the whole project code repository. > > Really? can you explain how you went about it before, please. What > technologies made this possible? What languages and development > methodologies were you using? > > > Signing an NDA can obviously show the company's intetion about IP > > protection. But sometimes it can be either difficult to prove if someone > > leaks our code, or exhoustive for a small company to deal with such law > > suits. > > Again.. as pointed out, if you hire people who are happy to work in > such a restrictive environment, you're likely to end up with code > that's not worth stealing (or protecting) in the first place :-/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
