On Mon 22-Jul-2002 at 10:15:44AM -0400, Jon wrote:
> At my former employer's, we built an Enterprise Management System out of
> mod_perl. He wants to distribute it to clients w/o risking theft of his
> code.
We had the same thoughts here, but we arrived at the conclusion that
there is one very efficient copy protection: it's called the copyright
laws.
After all, if your product is an "Enterprise Management System", I bet
your target has no interest whatsoever to compromise itself with illegal
licenses of your software...
IMHO the only market in which piracy _can_ have a negative impact is the
entertainment market.
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On top of all that, I find it *VERY* outrageous that it is legal for
software to come without the source code... Copyright laws would be a
lot easier to enforce if you could just see the unscrambled and
commented source of every program, and it'd be good for
interoperability too!
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My 2 eurocents,
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