>>Anyone use windowing to fix old foxpro apps? I know I did - but don't tell anyone. The geniuses at the patent office gave some guy from McDonald Douglas a patent on the technique and now he's got a law firm to try and "recover" some licensing fees.
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>>http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1009-200-1426450.html?tag=st.cn.1fd2.
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>>I wonder if I could get a patent on say - using four digit years instead of windowing?
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>Anybody who uses the ROLLOVER clause of SET CENTURY is windowing, so Yeah, I guess I do. Hope I don't hear from this guy's lawyers.
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>What an idiot.

Well, since we didn't write ROLLOVER in VFP, I guess that makes it Microsoft's problem. I *think* they've got enough legal firepower to make this a non-issue.