Hi Kranti - Honestly if the ideas in the product are that valuable anyone who uses the product with a web browser, print screen, and paint can fully mock up the application and send the mockups to development. Anything that is deployed on a server that is out of your control, is exactly that. I understand your need as: "To remotely deploy a tomcat application to a customer server." This is the root of the issue. Have you considered a hosted model for delivery?
2010/1/21 Kranti™ K K Parisa <kranti.par...@gmail.com> > Well there are soo many comments on the cost of IP and other tools. when we > are a small team started working on a web based product with open source > tools, for sure we can't spend too much on the tools to protect the IP > rights. because once we deploy for few clients, if its a good product, what > if they steal the code and also ideas. i agree to have legal terms and all > that stuff. but that would be a big story for us being small. > > so just wanted to see if anything available to protect our work, ideas > (ideas at code implementation level by using different opensource > technologies, well there are many companies who started like this). > > anyways thanks for the comments, i would love to share if we invent > anything > in this process, because small is big and it matters :) > > Best Regards, > Kranti K K Parisa > > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:00 PM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > > > Peter Crowther wrote: > > > >> 2010/1/21 Kranti™ K K Parisa <kranti.par...@gmail.com> > >> > >> > >>> How could we achieve this without the above tool? Because the pricing > of > >>> the > >>> above tool is very costly. > >>> > >>> Well, you could always spend the developer-years to create your own > >>> version > >>> > >> of that tool... which would probably be *more* costly. > >> > > > > > > I'll add something to that, just for the sake of it. > > I personally find this situation ironic : here we have someone who wants > to > > protect their own code, presumably so that they can charge the customer > for > > a copy of it, in order to get back their cost of development and some > > justified profit for their work. > > But the same people are apparently unwilling to pay for a product that > > would allow them to do so, and is sold on the same terms. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > > >