From: snacktime <snacktime@...>
Date: 2007-01-01T14:29:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Open source credit card processing in ruby

On 12/31/06, cremes.devlist@mac.com <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.

There is some netstrings sample code in the eventmachine repository
somewhere, that's where I got the idea from.  I'd never really looked
at it before, and when I did I liked it.  It's great for simple line
oriented tcp protocols.

Chris