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If I could figure out how to accomplish everything the big analytics packages do in a month or two without seeing their code, an intelligent programmer can reverse engineer any features I come up with without seeing mine. Encoding isn’t a big barrier to competition, it just makes it harder for someone that isn’t an intelligent programmer to pass it off as theirs after making minor modifications. If they do that, it should be pretty easy to tell it’s W3Counter at the core — the framework and such would give it away without a ton of modification.

Are you going to include a licensing system or encode your software? As a software developer (php) my self, I’m just curious if you intend to protect your investment or see if you think that is a waste.