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		<title>Why I'd Love Joomla Developers to Stop Encoding Components</title>
		<description>Discuss Why I'd Love Joomla Developers to Stop Encoding Components</description>
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			<title>Steve Burge says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/why-id-love-joomla-developers-to-stop-encoding-components/#comment-5127</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi Andrew I like the clear and explanatory encoding policy on your site, especially when you say: BTW - thats good news on your site.... JamboReport is back and more components to follow :-)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Steve Burge</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Andrew Eddie says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/why-id-love-joomla-developers-to-stop-encoding-components/#comment-5124</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Ok, after a bit a arm wrestling, I'm in. http://www.newlifeinit.com/index.php?Itemid=15&option=com_content (yes, I'll get around to SEF url's one day) I have a mix of free and commercial products on the way. I'm certainly not worried about people "cheating" off me, as I'm trying to maintain code quality as close as possible to the core examples anyway. So, if you are smart, you can work out how I've done something even if it is encoded. The way you run your business, or the quality of your product should be your "competitive edge". However, as an owner of Intellectual Property, I am concerned about unlawful use (aka Piracy). If it gets really bad I may have to change my thinking, but until then, I'll stick to an open format.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Andrew Eddie</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Steve Burge says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/why-id-love-joomla-developers-to-stop-encoding-components/#comment-5123</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi Louis I agree - thats a big potential issue. As the encoding increases, so does the risk of infringing on the GPL. I appreciate the stance of people such as Vince from Jomres.com, who will encode the absolute minimum neccessary to stop people ripping off their products. Encoding simply to maintain a competitive advantage however.... :sad: Steve]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Steve Burge</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Louis Landry says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/why-id-love-joomla-developers-to-stop-encoding-components/#comment-5122</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Nice writeup Steve. I agree with a lot of what you said and would also say that for me the free as in freedom aspect of open source software is incredibly important. Freedom with regard to software comes from the ability to modify things to suit your needs, and that is yet another argument for not encoding extensions. Food for thought: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Louis Landry</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Steve Burge says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/why-id-love-joomla-developers-to-stop-encoding-components/#comment-5108</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi Aravot Thanks for pointing that out! I've added Azrul to the list. Steve]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Steve Burge</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>aravot aravot says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/why-id-love-joomla-developers-to-stop-encoding-components/#comment-5107</link>
			<description><![CDATA[You can add www.azrul.com to the list I bought MyBlog component it wasn't encoded.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>aravot aravot</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Steve Burge says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/why-id-love-joomla-developers-to-stop-encoding-components/#comment-4994</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi Fabien That is good news :-) I've added you to the list above. Thanks too for your work with Joomla - we're running NeoReferences on our site : http://www.alledia.com/porfolio/]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Steve Burge</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Fabien Lanselle says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/why-id-love-joomla-developers-to-stop-encoding-components/#comment-4993</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hello, I would like to say that you can add us :-) www.neojoomla.com Some of our components were encrypted with IonCube, but we have decided to stop encoding. We just propose evalutation version which are encrypted... As you, I think, it's a mistake to encode for many reasons. Congratulations for your blog, it's really interesting! I'm a big fan ;-)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Fabien Lanselle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Steve Burge says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/why-id-love-joomla-developers-to-stop-encoding-components/#comment-4969</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We're in contact with one company right now whose bad customer service and ridiculous licensing may lead to them getting called out in days to come. Watch this space...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Steve Burge</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Anthony Olsen says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/why-id-love-joomla-developers-to-stop-encoding-components/#comment-4968</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Any hints on who those three are Steve?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Anthony Olsen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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