Subj : Re: Protecting your code
To   : comp.programming
From : Giannis Papadopoulos
Date : Mon Aug 01 2005 07:45 pm

MiniMe wrote:
> My real problem is this: I am not programmer and I intend to pay
> somebody to write the code. I am not entirely uneducated in the
> programming field but I don't do this for living. The idea that I have
> is a good one I consider and I want to protect it. I tried not to make
> much case of this but i detected some increased interest coming from
> my programmer on the direction of havig the whole design in advance.
> 
> The application is modular and they don't need to know the whole
> concept in order to write the code for this. Basically it is interface
> for some already existing public domain applications and some
> conectors which will transform these apps in addons to major
> applications already on the market.
> 
> So how do I protect my idea and my code from stealing by my very own
> programmers ?
> 
>  I am not being paranoid here but  I had to stop working with my
> programmer because with no reasons he was pushing me to provide him
> the whole concept.
> 
> MiniMe

1) do not work with people that you do not trust

2) if you do work with people from #1, do not complain

3) since you are not a programmer, you cannot manage the whole 
thing.Eventually, your programmer will understand what you have in mind. 
Learn to program and do it yourself.

4) the problem is not your programmer stealing your code/idea. It is the 
  rest of the world. File a patent (though I strongly suggest not to, 
because if Von Neumann,Turing and others had done this, you wouldn't 
have your idea). Whatever you do, there is always someone out there that 
is clever enough to reverse engineer it.


-- 
one's freedom stops where other's begin

Giannis Papadopoulos
http://dop.users.uth.gr/
University of Thessaly
Computer & Communications Engineering dept.

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