On Jul 22, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Grigore Dolghin wrote:
> Telerik products are not open source - you get the source code when you buy
> the product. However, I wasn't discussing the open source concept, I was
> trying to say that 1 million cells in less than a second is damn fast, so the
> legendary VFP speed is not a VFP thing anymore - the other languages are very
> close to it.
You can do the same thing in Dabo. Grids in most languages know how to
virtualize so that they aren't bogged down in rendering cells that are not
visible. The bottleneck is always getting a million rows of data to the client
in the first place
> The only reason I mentioned the source code is if they can do it, then IMO it
> worth to buy the product and learn from it. I know I learned a lot of VFP by
> digging in others' code.
Are you sure just what you're allowed to "learn"? What good is learning
something if you can't use that approach in your own code, due to someone
owning the copyright and releasing the code under a restrictive license?
Getting source code that you can't copy/edit/modify is worse than not getting
source code, because now you are open to copyright infringement accusations if
your "learned" techniques borrow a little too heavily from their code.
I don't want to start a licensing flamefest here; I just want to draw a
distinction between having source code and having the right to re-use that
source code.
-- Ed Leafe
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