From: pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>
Date: 2006-11-29T22:46:02+09:00
Subject: OT: Licensing (was Re: Is ruby a viable corporate alternative?)

On 11/28/06, Ken Bloom <kbloom@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Consider yourself warned that Ruby doesn't have any native compiler (like
> perlcc for perl) or bytecode compiler, so if you're releasing your code
> to the world, you have no practical way to protect your investment (yet).

Funny, I get the protection that I want from the GPL (others might want
to substitute there own FLOSS license).

It might be worth remembering that different folks have different goals in
releasing the software they write, and there are a number of mechanisms
that can be used to help achieve those goals, no matter what investment
you've made.


>
> --Ken
>
> --
> Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
> Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
> http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
>
>


-- 
thanks,
-pate
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