Re: Social engineering. Well you guys are demonizing me for what appears to be a pretty legitimate question and line of inquiry. Why is that? I have great relationships with my clients. And I don't assign a large ethical component to app development. Wanting to protect the time and effort invested in product development seems to be a pretty benign objective.
I mean if I develop a VBA app for Excel for a customer, I compile it into an Add-In to protect my IP. VBA is essentially "open source" in that it's bundled into Excel. Am I socially "mis-engineered" for not giving the customer the source code? So you guys kind of lost me. It's just business... Steve P.S. I don't want to mix it up. Appreciate your thoughts and feedback. On Jan 10, 10:48 am, FND <[email protected]> wrote: > > You look at TW as a labor of love. > > [...] > > Apps get developed when there's money in it. It seems like a tension > > exists in the open-source community because "profit" is made to be a > > bad thing. > > That's not correct. While there are some people in the FOSS community > who regard making money as inherently evil, that doesn't apply to > everyone, and it's certainly not true for most people in the TiddlyWiki > community. > > I was actually taking a very pragmatic rather than an ideological view > in my previous post. > There are certainly scenarios where publishing the source code does not > make sense for the developers (ESR explains such cases in CatB[1]) - > it's just that people often tend to be overprotective, insisting on > closed source when open source would actually be more > effective/efficient (FWIW, my boss has published some thoughts and > observations on this issue[2]). > > > the solution may be to focus on social engineering instead of software > > engineering > > Seconded; as mentioned before, you seem to be focusing on the wrong issue. > > -- F. > > [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar > [2]http://tinyurl.com/5jzxjg > (http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2008/10/21/learning-about-why-people-do...) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" 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/TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
