[OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

[Rui Maciel]

Tim Harig wrote:

> You still don't see many
> companies doing large scale internal development using Python and you
> definately don't see any doing external developement using a language
> that gives the customers full access to the source code.

What you refered as "full access to the source code" only goes as far as 
the license which was imposed by the copyright holders lets it to go.  If 
you distribute the source code along with the binaries but you only 
license your code if the licencees accept that they may look at the source 
code but they can't touch it then distributing the source code is 
essentially meaningless.  There is a good reason why "open source 
software" is not the same thing as "free software".


Rui Maciel