Posted by Ben C on 12/21/06 22:09

On 2006-12-21, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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> I would say it [hiding HTML source code if you could] is a bad idea
> generally for similar reasons to those that make it a good idea to
> have open source programs. But there are arguments both ways on this
> issue. It may be that companies would put more effort into development
> if their operations were not quite so open.

It's often the opposite though. There are a lot of companies whose
"mission critical" products you wouldn't dream of buying if you'd seen
the ball of mud source code they were compiled from.

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