Re: Private company and code salvation

[Thomas Weber]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:55:11PM +0200, Oscar Bayona Candel wrote:
> 
> Hi all two questions:
>  
> Fisrt, in the next two or three years I want to create my own company. 
> I want,if it is possible, to use octave as a one of my programming
> languagues, the other is Ox.
>  
> My first question is, how much it will cost?

Nothing.

> it is possible to use it freely?
Yes. 


> Second, if I want to protect a code (an m file) (temporaly) how can I make it 
> in octave?

You can not. 

.m files are clear text (just like PHP, Python, Perl and whatever
scripting language).


> That is I want that my programm will be used freely but not the way I
> have programmed.

You know, people on this list spend several hours each week (and that's
a conservative estimate) of their free, unpaid time developing Octave.

How about we start charging for the .m files?

        Thomas