OpenEuphoria

Re: The Euphorian Way

• Posted by president at insight-concepts.com Jul 03, 2001
• 536 views

Hello SR,

You Wrote:

Additionally, I think those main contributors should be allowed=
 the 
Eu C-source if they want it. They've proven their worth. Make=
 them 
sign a NDA and a non-compete agreement, and hand it over if they=
 
think they can do something good with it.

---------------------------My=
 Thoughts------------------------------

That could be certain death for RDS. Source code is very=
 valuable, 
and Mr. Bill Gates knows this all to well. Why do you think he=
 will 
not release the source to any of his products?

 He knows it is almost impossible to protect  Copyrighted source=
 
code. This is true, look it up. If someone got their hands on the=
 
sourcecode of  Microsoft Word, then changed the look and feel,=
 but 
used most of the source, Mr. Gates would be out of luck.

Example: A

lets say this piece of code is Copyrighted  

setText( YourText,"Example")<----------------Copyrighted
-----

Example: B

Now lets say I want to use this, but not get sued.

constant
Ex =3D "Example"

setText(MyText,Ex)

They both do the same thing, but slightly different code. 
This slight difference voids Example: A Copyrights.

This only applies to programming and source code.

Reason:

It has been decided 70 - 80 % of the code we use is recycled code=
 to 
begin with. Many of the software products in existence use much=
 of 
the same code. That is why you see very little Software Copyright=
 
Infringement Lawsuits. A half competent lawyer could discredit=
 any 
Copyright infringement lawsuit.

If RDS gave away their source, or even parts of it, without a=
 serious 
binding license agreement and/or a source code protection=
 contract, 
they might as well make Euphoria freeware. 

Christopher Bouzy
  President/CEO