Good Question!

I would assume that you are in business to make money. Since you are in business, how do you make your money? What can you do to insure that the money keeps flowing? Is it residual income or leveraged income?

There are plenty of people who charge money to clients and use scripts from Matt's Script Archive or javascripts from Javascript.com. Does that make them evil? Define Evil.

Business is for making money. What do you need to do to make money with this? If you need to make it a "trade secret" then so be it.

As far as being evil goes, I think that you would be evil if you disassembled other people's software and then reinvented it to call it your own. But then again, the very people who do this are in business and do it to make money.

I feel for you my friend. It is not an easy decision. I only hope that my ranting has helped and not hindered you.

In reply to Re: To Open Or Not To Open by fmogavero
in thread To Open Or Not To Open by guillaume

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