We believe a Developer Source license adds customer value over a closed source license. Developer Source gives customers control over critical server software. If a customer has an emergency bug that we cannot get to in time, she can either fix it herself or hire a consultant to fix it. A Developer Source Resin brings fast JSP and servlets to people who are not paid for their work. Students and hackers working on private projects do not need to purchase a deployment license.
Some programmers read source more easily than documentation.
Our intellectual property rights are protected by the copyright and license. It is still illegal for competitors to use our ideas and code in their products. Although we welcome contributions to Resin, we are not using Developer Source to score free programming labor. Responsibility for Resin's ongoing development and support rests with Caucho Technology. We are using Developer Source as an added customer value and a useful distribution channel.