[Tutor] don't steel my code Mister user

[nathan tech]

Hello everyone,

Again, thank you for your replies.

I've always done free products up to the one I am developing now, and, 
having considered the things you guys have said, will continue to do so.

Part of it is a confidence thing, I really don't think my products are 
worth 7, let alone 700 bucks, the other is I'm a sucker for helping as 
many people as I can.

Anyway, staying on topic here, I really appreciate all of you taking the 
time to give me advice and help, thank you very much :)


Thanks

Nate

On 04/05/2019 22:50, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 04/05/2019 15:35, nathan tech wrote:
>> It has to be said, after extensive research, and responses here, it
>> seems python was just not designed to be a commercial product.
> That depends. Python wasn't designed to be a commercial product
> in that it is an open source programming language and interpreter
> and so is free and inherently non-commercial(*).
>
> Can it produce commercial products? Of course it can and has.
> It is no different to any other similar development environment
> such as Visual Basic, PHP, even JAVA or Lisp or Smalltalk.
>
>> Licenses are all well and good, but if you're hacking a product, you're
>> just not going to be stopped by a lisence.
> True, but you can hack any product regardless of the language,
> even C++ or assembler can be hacked. The vast majority of users
> don't have the skills nor the time nor the inclination. And,
> if you can catch them, the license allows you to sue...
>
>> Furthering to that, if I ever sold products it would be £5, or $7, and 7
>> bucks just isn't worth all the effort to make python difficult to hack.
> 7 bucks isn't worth building a commercial product, unless you are sure
> you will sell 100's of thousands. And 7 bucks is also not worth the
> time and effort of hacking anything! But there are commercial products
> that sell for 100s of dollars that are written, in part at least, in Python.
>
>> Nothing is impossible, but, deterring the average user just for $7? Not
>> worth it.
> A license is cheap to produce and deters the "average user".
> Very few users will know how to hack code of any kind, and
> even those that do will have better  things to do with
> their time than try to save 7 bucks!
>
> The real question is whether you can produce something
> that is worth $7 to your customers. If it is they will
> buy it. If not they will look elsewhere, they won't try to
> decompile it and disable the protection - assuming you
> installed any.
>
> If your software is worth, say, $700 then possibly they
> might think about spending time getting round the license.
> Then it might be worth some minor effort on protection.
> but not much because if they really want to they can
> reverse engineer it regardless. That's the rules and
> reality of commercial software.
>
> The value lies in always being one step better than
> the guys who are following. That's how Adobe, et al
> maintain their lead and why they keep issuing updates!
>
> (*)Even open source can be commercial if you build a
> support plan around it. Red Hat and Cygnus are good
> examples of that strategy. Selling support for
> opensource software can work.
>