I have chosen to ignore their little ploy. I have to blow the dust off my VFP under Linux/Wine project. But once I do I do not plan to let M$ under my skin. They will need a search warrant to get to see "evidence" that I am "violating" their obviously unenforceable EULA. I am not going to be distributing any VFP under Linuz apps to anyone outside my own little data processing center (I am speaking in speculative terms, of course <g>), and under hearsay rules there is not enough for them to lawfully secure such a warranty. Catch me if you!
Why move to VFP under Linux in my case, when Win2kSP4 does a fine job as a platform, and I have a lot of left over and unused @in2k licenses? First, if M$ does make life difficult for me I have the licenses to show I am not actually violating anything other than their desire I chose to use a different platform - they got their OS money. Second, and for me most important, I can more virtual Linux machines under VMware ESXi than I can run Win2k virtual machines due a smaller base footprint requirement, and under Linux I am not going to have performance impeded by having to (continue to use) an antivirus application. And, speaking of which, at some point antivirus protection for Win2k is going to go bye-bye - so my hand will be forced anyway. So far time is still on my side re: moving back into that project. Gil Gilbert M. Hale [email protected] 585-359-8085 - Office (Rolls To Cellular) 585-202-4341 - Cellular/Voice Mail Legal Advisory: I have had a security expert advise me to embed the following statement in all outgoing eMails. Please read it. The statement below pertains to any person receiving or reading this document, whether or not they are the intended recipient or have intercepted this information as a non-secured communication transmitted over the Internet. Be advised you are required to comply with the following statement: This email communication (and any attached file or files) is intended only for the recipient(s) listed above. If you are neither an intended recipient, or a person responsible for the delivery of this communication to the intended recipient, you are hereby advised that any use, distribution or copying of the information in this communication is prohibited. The information transmitted in this email communication, and any attached file(s), may include confidential material protected by a privileged attorney/client relationship, may be an attorney work product, or may be work performed for a client that contains confidential information. Further, an attorney/client privilege includes CPA related work under the "Kovel Rule" and other similar State and/or Federal protections. If you have received this information in error please notify the sender immediately via return email, or at 585-359-8085 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:profoxtech- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Sytze de Boer > Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 3:32 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: vfp9 and linux > > I know this may sound like I cheeky question and I hope I don't come > across > like another MS basher, but, how can you enforce such a eula once you > have > made it known you're not going to support the product any longer. > Frankly, I would have no qualms about ignoring it. > > S > > > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Michael Madigan > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I don't think you're allowed to run it under Wine. > > > > The workaround is to host Foxpro on a windows terminal server box and > use > > Linux remote desktop clients to access it. > > > > > > > > > > --- On Tue, 10/6/09, Rafael Copquin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > From: Rafael Copquin <[email protected]> > > > Subject: vfp9 and linux > > > To: "PROFOXTECH" <[email protected]> > > > Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 11:37 AM > > > One of my clientes asked me these > > > questions: > > > > > > If my company server is a Linux box, can your vfp9 > > > application be installed in it? > > > If the client machines also run on Linux, can just > > > accessing the server app from an icon work? > > > If so, which Linux dialect, or what patches should be > > > used? > > > > > > The above are technical questions. > > > > > > What about the legal issues involved? > > > > > > I know that these questions were asked many times in the > > > past, but I never really bothered considering them because > > > up until now none of my clients had any problems with using > > > Windows OS's. However, this particular new client has all > > > his other applications running on Linux and they will not > > > install a Windows operating system just to use my VFP9 app. > > > > > > Rafael Copquin > > > > > > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > > > multipart/alternative > > > text/plain (text body -- kept) > > > text/html > > > --- > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/01c501ca46c7$6a2cd640$3e8682...@com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
