[Catalyst] creating binaries

[Bogdan Lucaciu]

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 10:49, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>
> Bla bla. You are living in USA probably, where what you said is not bla
> bla, but I am living in Romania, Central Europe where even stronger laws
> than those regarding the piracy are not always respected. In my country
> there are no many people that care for what you said. Most of the users use
> pirated programs... more than 90% of the private persons, and over 50% of
> the companies, or even more.
>
>
> So? They will get the source code and give the program to other persons,
> that won't need to pay for it anymore.
> Who stops them doing that? Do you think there is an institution in my
> country that visits the private persons and check to see if they have
> licences? Not even the companies care about that. Business Software
> Alliance of MS, Oracle, Corel, SAP and a few other companies visit from
> time to time the companies, and then they negociate with them for selling
> them some more licences, because they are found that they have illegal
> software. That's all.
>

> Of course Linux works just fine, but for very few people comparing with
> Windows, and I don't care what the users use, but sell my program. I have
> also noticed that most Linux users are users that know more about
> computers, that like only open/free source programs, and it is almost
> impossible to sell them something, because they think that all the programs
> should be free.
>
> When talking for the public, they say that it is not important to have the
> programs for free, but have the source code, in order to see what it does,
> and beeing able to modify it for their own use, however, in fact they'll
> never like to buy software and always try to use free software, even
> pretending the the extra features provided by commercial software are not
> important.
>
> I have heard for many times that PostgreSQL is same as good as Oracle, and
> that the extra features Oracle has are not very important, and the
> disadvantages of proprietary software are always presented by those who
> like Linux. I haven't heard a single person that says that he  like Linux,
> but that he also agrees buying commercial programs.

> I am constraint to work under Windows, but this is not the only reason I am
> interested about this OS. I am interested because most of the users use it
> and if I'll target only the Linux users, I won't be able to sell anything,
> or much less.
>
> With ActivePerl, perlapp, and Null Soft installer and other tools provided
> by Active State I can develop programs for Windows just like those made
> with Visual Basic, so it is possible to create Windows programs with perl.
> Probably very few people will find that the program was created using perl.
> If I can hide the source code I can put a software protection, a key or
> something like this, but if the source code is free, any user could just
> edit the source code and disable that protection, even if the user doesn't
> know perl.
>
> And I might need to create the program for a software company that requires
> to hide the source code. I cannot tell them that they are stupid because
> the source code can be found anyway. That's what they are asking, and I
> need to give them this if it is possible.
> No software company will agree to make open source programs for them,
> because they won't be able to sell them.
> I think what I want could be done, and in that case Catalyst would be used
> in more other fields than the standard web pages.

this is what some people refer to as "trolling". (High quality trolling even) 

Please end this thread, or at least try to keep legal/marketing/philosophy out 
of it. 

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Bogdan Lucaciu