> So I should buy a commerical product from zend to > protect my code but since my code will be reversed > engineered anyways then what's the point of buying > from zend?
That's your choice. It's also my point. If you can't be 100% secure then perhaps you should be looking at what you're trying to do. Some observable facts: 1. Some companies remain, from what I can tell, highly successful and can give away their source code for free. 2. Some companies remain, from what I can tell, highly successful without giving away any of their source. 3. Some companies fail, even if they are giving away their source. 4. Some companies fail, even if they don't give away their source. The conclusion I draw from that is that protecting or giving away your source is not a single make or break decision for a company. Rather, there are a myriad of decisions involved, of which the status of any source code is but one. Protect it, don't protect it, by itself it doesn't mean squat. In association with other things it might. For example, if you aren't prepared to pursue, in the courts as necessary, your closed source proprietary code then sooner or later someone will figure that out and take it for their own use. Do you think Microsoft would be as successful if it wasn't as agresive about protecting it's "intellectual property"? Speaking only for myself, I believe the effort involved to be not worth it, so I have no current intention of trying to protect, encode, conceal, booby trap or whatever any of my code. What you do is your business. You'd probably do well to understand the implications first - what are you protecting? Why? How far will you go to protect it? Will you take legal action? Etc etc etc CYA, Dave -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
