hide python code !

Damjan gdamjan at gmail.com
Mon Aug 14 19:48:45 EDT 2006


> Imagine if you were the single-person developer of a small application
> that did something quite innovative, and charged a small fee for your
> product. Now imagine you were practically forced to make your algorithm
> obvious - a couple of months later, Microsoft bring out a freeware
> version and destroy your business in an instant. Sure, they and others
> can (and have) done that with closed-source products, but you increase
> your chances of survival 10-fold if the key algorithms are not obvious.

I think you increase your chances of Microsoft not even being in the same
room with your software 100-fold if you release it under.. say GPL.

-- 
damjan



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