Re: All Survey leading to PHP

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Nathan Rixham wrote:

> Protecting source: I've got a very simple view point on this, I use
> linux servers, I can go into the source of everything on the entire
> machine and modify or copy it, 

How about Acrobat Reader or ATI graphics drivers?  There's plenty of
closed source products about on Linux. 

> so why then should my application built using open source software,
> running on an open source platform, through an open source web server
> with an open source database behind it choose to use closed source?

If you've got a competitive edge, you don't want to hand it to your
competition free of charge.  It's as easy as that. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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