| Re: Examine "Saved" IDL procedures now too! [message #29967 is a reply to message #29825] |
Tue, 26 March 2002 05:41   |
ronn
Messages: 123
Registered: April 1999
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Good Morning All,
As someone who does try to make money writing IDL code, here is my opinion.
First, I think this is just a variation of the old "open source"/"closed
source" debate.
Second, shouldn't the question really be "Where do we want IDL to go and
does this hurt?". I have been writing for a long time that everyone (RSI
included) would benefit from a large third party IDL code community. As
long as we rely only on RSI and a few developers (like Craig Markwardt who
has some fantastic curve fitting routines) the capabilities of IDL will only
expand slowly. Like it or not, the major motivator of the world is making
money. Therefore, if we want more capability from IDL, then people (other
than RSI) need to be able to make money from it. Being able to decompile
save files really hurts this since it exposes all your techniques to the
world.
Wasn't it Sun-Tsu that said "If someone shows you your weakness, thank
them?". What this is going to do is force RSI to write some obfuscator for
the save files just like Java. So in the long run, this is a necessary
development.
-Ronn
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Ronn Kling
KRS, inc.
email: ronn@rlkling.com
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