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Visual FoxPro, Linux and the Jack of Hearts
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24/04/2003 19:39:58
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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24/04/2003 14:21:38
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Visual FoxPro
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>>>If they want to say that they won't support use of their distributables on other than Windows systems, then that, I believe is fair game. If that was their intention, then they should say so clearly.
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>>Exactly - and it will create a market for those who will provide that support.
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>>It is curious, though, that M$ didn't react when Wine became capable of running Office stuff, or other M$ products which may be more important.
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>>I'd like to see a music publisher who would try to enforce that their music be played on proprietary brand of CD players...
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>Of course, it would only be equivalent if the music publisher manufactured their own cd player and only allowed the cd's to be played on that one.
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>Actually didn't music publishers at one point try to put copy protection on cd's that was crippling their ability even to be played on PC's? I seem to recall there was hell to pay over it and sales slumped badly for a short period until they backed off. Or am I becoming delusional once again?

I remember that - they had such a good protection, that the CDs wouldn't play in the computers and in the cars... they gave it up in a matter of months. And the way around the protection was to draw a line with a marker over the unused portion of the CD.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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