I wonder if the coder/s would open source what they did. I imagine its purpose is unique enough that releasing the code wouldn't cause any "now we won't potential clients won't need to hire us" issues, and it could be quite interesting.
Edit: Any chance of explanation for the down voting to -1? I mean, I assume it's for thinking my question moronic, but would like to actually hear why that might be...
When you get downvoted, just wait a bit. It seems in the last two years or so we acquired some trigger-happy idiots. It still usually balances out in the end.
I don't really have a problem being downvoted, and I've certainly seen what you describe happen many times in the past. I was asking not so much to prevent downvoting, but because I couldn't see what I'd said that could lead people to want to downvote, and hoped to have a chance either to win them over or have them win me over.
Edit: Any chance of explanation for the down voting to -1? I mean, I assume it's for thinking my question moronic, but would like to actually hear why that might be...