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

[Dale Bengston]

I am in agreement that commercial software companies should not be  
making licensing more restrictive. They could learn something from  
the customer reactions to the RIAA and MPAA and their lawyer-happy  
solution to piracy.) Since FMI is on record that activation will not  
be necessary for VLA customers, they're not putting their larger  
customers through this. I'd be curious to learn what percentage of  
FMI's business comes from VLAs; that would inform the decision, I think.

So, will you write plug-ins that work with VLA versions of products  
that otherwise require activation?

Dale

On Mar 13, 2007, at 3:46 AM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:

> 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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