Re: Protecting Software w/ Software License Keys...
Re: Protecting Software w/ Software License Keys...
- Subject: Re: Protecting Software w/ Software License Keys...
- From: "Jeffrey T. Hazelwood" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 04:10:21 -0400
I'll reply to some of your points, just because it's 4am and I'm tired
of coding...
Hmmm.. you don't like Apache? What about Darwin? GCC? Tomcat? XFree86?
TheGimp?
NewsWatcher? Hell, without NewsWatcher, most of the classic Mac NNTP
news
readers would never have followed. Most were built using some or all of
its
code, likely all used it as a reference. These are all "good" free
applications,
and yet the all have competition.
If I we're the developer of another webserver, OS, compiler, Java App
Server, Window Server,
graphics program or news reader, I wouldn't like any of these because
they would be cutting
into my profits and making my job of making money twice as hard.
Collusion is no better than anti-competitive behavior. Telling me that
open-sourcing
my code is a bad idea unless it's poorly written is inane.
Maybe I stated my point wrong, but freeware and OpenSource are two
entirely different things.
I've been paid to work on code that was released as opensource.
If that guy can so easily be replaced, perhaps he shouldn't have been
hired
in the first place. Frankly, if someone would hand my manager a
completed
set of code for the project I'm currently working on, both she and I
would
thank that person profusely. I wouldn't lose my job - I'd move on to
one of
the way-too-many things that need to be coded or fixed and everyone
would
be happy.
No, in the point that I made, you would lose your job because they would
hire someone else for free and wouldn't need you anymore. Just like if I
have
Apache, I don't need to buy anyone else's webserver. Just like when
Internet
Explorer came out, there was no point in me paying $49.95 for the
Netscape
browser that they were charging.
This is fine and dandy, for me the consumer, but not very good if I was
trying to make a competing product.
One more point about "free" is all of the internet startups that were
free. You remember
the ones that wanted to figure out how to make money in the future that
are now bankrupt
and have hosed the entire technology sector? Free does not a business
make.
The whole point of this original thread was about software protecting
and licensing.
If you want to do freeware, then there's no point in worrying about
that, is there?
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