From: cremes.devlist@...
Date: 2007-01-01T09:01:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Open source credit card processing in ruby


On Dec 31, 2006, at 5:55 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 cremes.devlist@mac.com wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 31, 2006, at 4:07 PM, snacktime wrote:
>>
>>> Another option would be to make it free but not open source.  The
>>> source could still be provided for review to those that need it, but
>>> would require signing a simple contract to not release the  
>>> source, and
>>> not to modify it unless you were a Vital developer, which only costs
>>> $100.  But with those restrictions I doubt many people would even  
>>> use
>>> the software.  It has a limited market to begin with, even though
>>> there is nothing out there like it that isn't fairly expensive.
>>
>> I'd love to see it just so I could see a (hopefully) good example  
>> using eventmachine and a home-grown protocol using netstrings.
>>
>> If you don't opensource it, put me on the list of people who'd  
>> like to see the source code.
>
> You may want to take a look at CCVS by HKS, which was purchased by  
> Red Hat.

Actually, I don't really care about what it does (credit card  
verification). I just want to see some running code using netstrings  
and eventmachine.

Does CCVS use it? I searched for it and got a few hits but didn't see  
any obvious links that lead to its source code.

cr