Re: request to ban 'no source' contributions
Christian Cuvier wrote:
> I see no reason whatsoever to allow or promote closed source. If a project is
> easy to clone, there's no relevance in selling it under any form, and that
> very act should be outlawed probably. If it's sophisticated enough, there
> won't be any serious cloning at all.
There is one very good reason for binding code, which I have had
to do in the past.
I had a client who contracted for a very nice, large program. This
particular client was, relatively speaking, computer savvy (he could
install programs, set up paths, etc) without help. My fear was that
he was just savvy enough to be inclined to "fix" things the thought
could be made better. And that 'fixing" would break something else.
If he ever asks for the source, he is welcome to it, but he and his
staff are probably better off having an unreadable program which works :)
Irv
|
Not Categorized, Please Help
|
|
