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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: Open source credit card processing in ruby
From:       Matt Lawrence <matt () technoronin ! com>
Date:       2006-12-31 23:55:24
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.0612311804110.31788 () oberon ! technoronin ! com
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On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 cremes.devlist@mac.com wrote:

>
> On Dec 31, 2006, at 4:07 PM, snacktime wrote:
>
>> Another option would be to make it free but not open source.  The
>> source could still be provided for review to those that need it, but
>> would require signing a simple contract to not release the source, and
>> not to modify it unless you were a Vital developer, which only costs
>> $100.  But with those restrictions I doubt many people would even use
>> the software.  It has a limited market to begin with, even though
>> there is nothing out there like it that isn't fairly expensive.
>
> I'd love to see it just so I could see a (hopefully) good example using 
> eventmachine and a home-grown protocol using netstrings.
>
> If you don't opensource it, put me on the list of people who'd like to see 
> the source code.

You may want to take a look at CCVS by HKS, which was purchased by Red 
Hat.

-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts. 
It's what I can remember in time to use.


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