Hi, Ed Good point. I have licenses for Telerik control and for Devexpress controls. Both provide the source code and the only limitation is you cannot repack them and sell them as competing controls.
So far so good, I'd say. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:profoxtech- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 5:18 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: An interview I gave for MarketWatch > > 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 > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
