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

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

I'm in the process of recompiling the plug-ins in a way that the
plug-ins will deactivate themselves if the version number of FileMaker
is higher than 8.5

ggt667

On 3/13/07, Dale Bengston <dbengston at preservationstudio.com> wrote:
> 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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