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in article ef98d69.3@WebX.aaQKaf7vad4, Olav Kvern wrote:

> No--it's just that I think selling scripts is hopeless. People just won't buy
> them. 

I suspect you're right, although I know of at least one person who makes a
reasonable if modest income supplement from it.

> People will, however, buy scripting development services and training.

Yep.

> If you want to sell/protect your code, write a plug-in. I don't think that
> broad horizontal distribution is what scripting is about, anyway (I know that
> it's what I do, but that's because I need a "marketing" vehicle to help people
> understand how useful scripting can be).

But others distribute scripts for marketing reasons too. And I can imagine
cases where someone has written something for a client, and decides to
release a useful subset of it freely for this reason. In such a case, there
might be a good argument to protect the code. I'm not sure a user can
grumble too much about not getting access to code if the script is free.
> 
> I also think that InDesign should ship with its source code, but that's
> entirely another (and much less practical) matter.<g>

Yes (and yes).

-- 
Shane Stanley,  sstanley@myriad-com.com.au