tnk@artemis.cs.wayne.edu (Tahir N. Khan) (05/09/91)
Hi, I am doing this for my cousin whose company is looking for someone who is willing to sell a copy of Clipper 4.0, which I am told is also known as Summer of 87. The company that has developed Clipper, Nautican???, will not sell Clipper 4.0 since Clipper 5.0 has now been released. Supposedly, selling copies of software that you legally own is also legal. So, if anyone would like to respond to this request please send the necessary info at my email address and I will forward it to my cousin. Thanks. Tahir N. Khan Computer Science Dept. Wayne State University
tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) (05/10/91)
In article <1991May8.193637.27697@cs.wayne.edu> tnk@cs.wayne.edu (Tahir N. Khan) writes: > >Hi, > I am doing this for my cousin whose company is looking > for someone who is willing to sell a copy of Clipper 4.0, > which I am told is also known as Summer of 87. The > company that has developed Clipper, Nautican???, will not > sell Clipper 4.0 since Clipper 5.0 has now been released. > Supposedly, selling copies of software that you legally > own is also legal. So, if anyone would like to respond to > this request please send the necessary info at my email > address and I will forward it to my cousin. > > Thanks. > > Tahir N. Khan > Computer Science Dept. > Wayne State University Tahir, Just to clarify things. The company is Nantucket Corporation and somebody can transfer their license but they are not "legally" permitted to sell the old disks that they used to upgrade to the latest version. What invariably happens is that the purchaser of the old disks sends in a request to upgrade and has to be turned down which makes for an unhappy customer. I would suggest that your cousin stick with version 5.01 which has just been released, is rock solid and is what everybody is going to be using within the next couple of months. No magazine is going to cover S'87 code, books will be in short supply, nobody will offer S'87 training. The developer's conference this June in Palm Desert has maybe one workshop that mentions S'87 and that one is mine "Evolving S'87 code to 5.0". Once you change there is no way you'll want to go backward. tom