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Decompiling VFP Executable
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From
12/05/2017 15:36:22
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
To
12/05/2017 02:13:19
Walter Meester
HoogkarspelNetherlands
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Visual FoxPro and .NET
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01651033
Message ID:
01651075
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149
>>I personally never had the need for it, but yes I agree. But really it is about the EULA and whether it is reasonable.

I knew when I bought it that you're only supposed to use it for yourself. Whether this is enforceable isn't a concern to me: it's what I agreed, and in his shoes I'm sure I'd want the same.

>>Your neighbour does not hold any license to MS office, but knocks on your door to create, modify or print a word document (on your computer). Is it resonable to have an EULA that says that the software can only be used by the owner of the software and only for documents he owns? Please raise your finger who will deny your friendly neighbour to do this.

Seems to me there are many business models and we could both spend all day coming up with examples. ;-) E.g. see what happens if you start sharing MS's CRM software with more than one company for a fee, or if you wanted to use VFP on Wine/Linux.

>>Disclaimer. I do not own refox, never used it as I have backups and sourcecontrol in place. I have all respect for JanB in creating and maintaining REFOX and hope he will continue to be profitable However I would argue that if his business is depended on this particular T/C, then I think the product has no viable commercial future.

I hope there's enough $ for him to keep going. FWIW, some years back Refox saved my bacon when a crash took out a session of tricky work that would have been a bear to replicate, and had not yet been backed up or source controlled. How often do you back up?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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