Subject: RE: linkedin discussion of "can you sell an XSLT?"
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:08:57 +0100
|
> Had an interesting discussion that I started on a Linkedin
> group, but should probably have started here. I had
> originally asked the question "can you sell an XSLT?". And
> by that I don't mean is it possible, but would anyone buy
> one. What is the market for XSLTs as products?
I assume by "XSLTs" you mean stylesheets?
I don't normally hear Java programs referred to as Javas. And perhaps that's
the point. If people buy a program, they buy it for what it does, not for
what language it's written in.
> Ken Holman of course highlighted a key component to this
> topic, which is obfuscation in order to protect intellectual
> property.
I know at least one user who uses the Saxon ability to compile stylesheets
in order to protect the source code.
Regards,
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
|