Posted by W Marsh on 07/17/07 21:18

On 16 Jul, 12:10, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Rami Elomaa wrote:
> > "Jerry Stuckle" <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote in message
> >news:r8idne2DJ_tCJQfbnZ2dnUVZ_gSdnZ2d@comcast.com...
> >> W Marsh wrote:
> >>> On 15 Jul, 15:27, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> >>>> And BTW - in PHP there is no such thing as "private" code. Once you
> >>>> give it to a customer the source is available, unless you get one of the
> >>>> encryption engines, i.e. from Zend.
> >>> Well, there is. Not a single person outside of the company will ever
> >>> see this code, because it's a backend system that powers customer
> >>> facing front ends. Surely you have come across such a situation
> >>> before! Not all PHP ends up as forum software.
>
> >> So? That makes it so special? ROFLMAO!
>
> > That makes it _private_. You claimed that no php code is private, because
> > the client will always see it. Yet, if the case happens to be that a company
> > has it's own IT department that produces software, it will remain private,
> > since no second party will have access to it. You ought to be laughing at
> > yourself, not to his claim.
>
> Nope, that doesn't make it private. It just means it has restricted
> access. Different things.

Wheeeeee.

That's the sound of you moving the goalposts.

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