[FX.php List] For those of you with access to the FileMaker 9 ETS

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

The plug-ins I write from now on will not work with versions of
FileMaker that also has the demand for activation in the same version,
that's a licensing thing and a business decision.

I'm not a part of ETS either, but read some rumours that FM 9 exists already.

ggt667

On 3/13/07, Dale Bengston <dbengston at preservationstudio.com> wrote:
> If you're part of the ETS program, you shouldn't be posting about
> stuff that's confidential under you NDA.
>
> Since there is a page up on FMI's public web site about the coming of
> activation, I guess activation isn't confidential. I don't use
> Windows, so I'm blissfully unaware of the hassles of activation. Or
> more likely, re-activation if a hard drive crashes or something. I
> guess it's like voicemail systems: they're all annoying and some are
> unusable. I won't pass judgement about it except to say it's a
> business decision made by FMI. I'm sure they have their reasons.
> Also, FMI has stated that activation does not apply to VLA customers,
> for what it's worth.
>
> http://filemaker.com/support/activation.html
>
> I'm not in the ETA program this time, so I"m not in the loop. On the
> other hand, I'm also not bound by NDA so I can opine away. Based on
> some of the rumors and heresay floating around out there, I'll make
> this guess: The activation stuff is really all about offering a free
> thin client with limited capability. Then if you buy a license and
> activate it, it becomes a full FMP client. This allows FMI to
> penetrate more places with a free thing, that people will get hooked
> on and buy a license. It also allows customers of FMI to distribute a
> crippled thin client to certain groups of users without having to buy
> a million licenses.
>
> Again, this is my own speculation, and is not based on any insider
> knowledge. So if I'm wrong, I was just speculating. If I'm right, you
> heard it here first.
>
> Dale
>
>
> On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>
> > Please check and make sure you report if the filemaker files can or
> > cannot be unicode characters, I remember in FileMaker 5.5 Server for
> > Linux, filenames using characters outside the lower 127 ASCII
> > characters made a mess.
> >
> > Hmm and will FX.php still work?
> >
> > BTW Will anyone ever convert to 9?
> > How are FMI going to trick people into this?
> > I hear there is extreme nazi logging( aka activation. )
> >
> > Will there be a Linux version this time around?
> > I need scalable systems now...
> >
> > ggt667
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