1. Re: Visual Euphoria wont run ATT:Matt Lewis
your average Joe wrote:
>
> actually, there is, the only reason i have put VE up is for testing,
> basically i do not want 50 clones of VE before i finish it,and i disagree
> the user contributions are not about open source, it's about showing what
> Euphoria is capable of aswell as adding libraries for other users to use.
> As you say 99% of them are open source so what's your god damn problem with me
>
> being in the 1%
All I would have to do to 'clone' your program would be to run it and
look at the screen, then write something which does the same thing.
Since you've already released the program, it's too late to prevent
that.
If you're worried about someone just copying big chunks of your code,
well, that would be easily detected, wouldn't it? And whoever did that
would get a lot of ridicule from people on this list, and would be
guilty of copyright infringement as well.
You can post anything you want without the source, but there is a real,
logical reason for people to prefer programs which come with source code:
Someday you will get bored, get interested in something else, get
hit by a bus, or whatever, and quit supporting your program.
It's happened several times in the past.
If your program is useful, then people will want to keep using it,
and improve it by removing the remaining bugs, making it work with
various versions of Windows, maybe even on Linux. Without the source,
none of that's possible.
Irv
