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Walter Bright a écrit :
> I have slowly come to the realization that making the source code 
> available is *not* incompatible with maintaining one's intellectual 
> property rights. Making the source code available is not the same thing 
> as making it free for any use. The only reason to hide your source from 
> your customers is if you've got trade secrets in there (or if your 
> license prevents it). Otherwise, the source code being available is good 
> for business as it shows you aren't distributing malware, it serves as a 
> great advertisement for the quality of your work, it shows you have 
> confidence in your product, it protects against some disaster causing 
> you to lose your backup copies (!), customers can often help you fix 
> errors, etc.
> 
> Sure, some people will pirate it. But if they make money off of doing 
> so, they are wide open to a big lawsuit. A real company won't take the 
> risk. If it's some hobbyist dinking around, well, so what?
> 
> I can tell you I'm getting sick and tired of closed source apps. For 
> example, I attempted to install a major software company's crapware app. 
> While it might be a good product underneath, the dammed thing attempts 
> to take over my machine, installing things that always run upon startup, 
> always "phoning home" over the internet, sending gawd knows what back to 
> the parent company, nagging me about "activating" and "registering" it. 
> It acts like it's doing me a huge favor by allowing me to use it at all. 
> I just don't want to deal with that anymore.
> 
> Open source products tend to come with an entirely different attitude - 
> much more customer focussed.

I so completely agree. However I don't understand one thing: you're 
saying open source is Good and closed source is Bad, and yet the DMD 
backend is still closed-source. Have I missed something ?