You could just include a few fatal hard-to-find bugs; guarantee yourself some support revenue. For kow, since REBOL is an interpereted language, your best bet would be to copyright/patent your creation (whatever works in nz). You might try encrypting it somehow and adding a wrapper decryption program in some other language. This still wouldn't be incredibly effective. As far as the REBOL runtime is concerned, Rebol technologies has said that Rebol/core, the version available now for download off of their website, will always be freely available. This means that any features you can use now (because no other versions of REBOL are currently available) are available through Rebol/core, which can be deployed for free. If you need Rebol/Command or Rebol/whatever, pricing has yet to be announced and may still be undetermined. -- Andrew Grossman http://web.dartmouth.edu/~grossman/ --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to those in the REBOL world... Lets say ( just for fun ) that I had spent 6 months tolling away with REBOL, and had produced a marvellous piece of software, that does everything. Even making a fine cup of coffee! Let's then say, that I want to sell it for millions of N.Z Dollars ( No open sourcing here...) How would I stop people from ripping into my code and pirating it as their own??? After all, REBOL is an easy to understand language. It's pretty open to editing... A little bit of piracy would be easy... my retirement to the Gold Coast would then be threatened. And... If I did happen to sell my Software (not saying that I would).... Would I have to sell to my customers, their own copy of rebol? Or do they buy their own copy? Because I don't think REBOL will be free forever... will it? (<==-- Not wanting to get into a debate over this issue) --- end of quote ---
