mgraham@cdp.UUCP (05/02/90)
I am using SCO's foxbase software. About a year ago I started asking SCO if/when they would put a switch in it to allow users to turn off the copyright screen every time the prog. gets launched (this after trying hard to edit it out or otherwise get rid of it! :-) ). Once again I am trying to get rid of that blasted copyright/serial # screen and am not getting very far. The SCO sales people tell me that they do not have access to the technical folks at SCO who may know the answer. They say that I should buy a support contract to talk with the tech. folks myself. I say that this is an outstanding ?ion I first raised when I was within my initial 30-days free support period AND that I am considering buying more copies of the product if I can get the answer/fix I am looking for on this point. Getting nowhere with SCO and looking for help from "the net"... anyone have ideas and/or suggestions? Thanks! - mark (Mark Graham, Pandora Systems)
mgraham@cdp.UUCP (05/07/90)
Dear Friends, I am still looking for help getting rid of the copyright banner on Foxplus running on XENIX. Does anyone have any info. on this? SCO has not been of help to me. Thanks, - mark (Mark Graham, Pandora Systems)
rogerk@sco.COM (Roger Knopf 5502) (05/08/90)
In article <144100012@cdp> mgraham@cdp.UUCP writes: > >I am using SCO's foxbase software. About a year ago I started asking >SCO if/when they would put a switch in it to allow users to turn off >the copyright screen every time the prog. gets launched (this after >trying hard to edit it out or otherwise get rid of it! :-) ). Once >again I am trying to get rid of that blasted copyright/serial # screen >and am not getting very far. Surely you realize that you violate copyright by removing the copyright notice? This is basic to copyright law - to get copyright protection, you have to display a copyright message. > >The SCO sales people tell me that they do not have access to the technical >folks at SCO who may know the answer. They say that I should buy a support >contract to talk with the tech. folks myself. I say that this is an >outstanding ?ion I first raised when I was within my initial 30-days >free support period AND that I am considering buying more copies of the >product if I can get the answer/fix I am looking for on this point. Display of the copyright message is required both to protect our copyrights and those of Fox Software. This is not a technical question. Of course it is technically feasible, but that doesn't mean that SCO would do it. Of course, I don't speak for SCO on these issues, but this seems pretty clear. Roger Knopf SCO Consulting Services -- "His potential clients were always giving him the business." --Robert Thornton
djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) (05/09/90)
>>I am using SCO's foxbase software. About a year ago I started asking >>SCO if/when they would put a switch in it to allow users to turn off >>the copyright screen every time the prog. gets launched (this after > Surely you realize that you violate copyright by removing the copyright > notice? This is basic to copyright law - to get copyright protection, > you have to display a copyright message. > Display of the copyright message is required both to protect > our copyrights and those of Fox Software. I'm not an expert on computer copyright law, but I note that GNU emacs displays a copyright message on startup by default, but also has a variable, 'inhibit-startup-message', that you can set in your .emacs file to suppress the copyright message on startup. gdb has a '-quiet' option to do the same thing. As far as I know, these options do not jeopardize the copyright of those programs. What would be wrong with putting a similar feature in FoxBASE? -- David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu> <djm@ai.mit.edu>