Which do you prefer - free visible-code (crippled) OR free encrypted-code?

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by Gary Bolton

I would never install a free hack with encrypted code, you don't know what your installing. Whats stopping a person from adding spyware that you know nothing about because the code is encrypted. Also like another person mentioned, it takes away the ability to customize the code to suit your own site and also check code for bugs that might have been overlooked.

Following your logic, do you check windows software that you buy, such as photoshop or microsoft office, for spyware or bugs? Why not?

It's just way too risky. Things change, and when they do I need to be able to modify my product to compensate. I'm not going to rely on an outside source to make those changes when they easily could go out of business, die, not care, jack up their prices, or at the very least would obviously have other priorities in their world (like running their own business).

You are a user of Microsoft Windows. What are you going to do if Microsoft goes out of business? Would you develop Windows on your own? This does not make any sense to me...