Re: Re: Visual Euphoria wont run
William Heimbigner wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <michellerogers at bellsouth.net>
> > You guys aren't understanding my question........
> > I meant, what would be the reason for posting closed source, as opposed to
> open source. The reasons that both you and ck gave do not say why it should
> be closed source and not open.
> >
> So that other people wont rip off your ideas.
That is one reason.
It has a couple of flaws: one is that you can't hide most of your
"ideas" - many people can run the program and see what it does, just
not "how" it does what it does. They can then come up with their own
methods for producing identical results, all without seeing any of
your code.
The second flaw is that most of us tend to think that our ideas are
somehow "new" or "unique", and they mostly aren't. You can waste a
lot of time trying to keep people from seeing some code which they
could easily find in any college-level programming book. The number
of new and creative algorithms discovered tends to be one every few
years - not everytime you write a program.
Irv
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