but we feel that we need a technical barrier too
Just consider this:

And you want to be so friggin arrogant as to lock up your source? You stand on the shoulders of giants and drool onto their face.

Be gone, arrogant fool.

It's not a matter of not making money. I want you to make money with Perl. Gawd knows, I certainly have.

But what about the poor maintainence programmer who comes along after you've already gone off to better and bigger things? By locking up your source, you've effectively robbed him of a chance to help your current client. Who died and made you king of the world to be doing that? Again, especially with the fact that you're using open source software in the first place!

Or are you claiming that your code will never require maintenance? Dude, I've never written a program that I didn't edit later.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.

In reply to On open sourcing your applications by merlyn
in thread Restricting access to cgi source by pernod

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