Re: Securing an .MDE

On Jul 14, 7:26 am, "Rick Brandt" <rickbran...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
lyle fairfield wrote:
Regardless, why do we have to have those nasty end-users anyway? Not
only do they want to pay me inordinate sums for the applications I
write but they want to be able to do whatever they want with them.
How rude!
Just think how much better it would be if we could just freeze-dry our
applications and keep them in crystal cabinets and no one could, or
would want to, get near them. Why then I could sleep at night and not
worry about anyone stealing my brilliant code.
Oh wait, I give all my code away anyway, and haven’t delivered
anything but totally unsecured mdbs and adps for many years so I
guess I’m not into worrying about those things anyway.
And the trouble this has caused me?
None!
Zero!
Not Any!
Not an Iota!
Nada!
Zip!

I understand and mostly agree with your sentiments for people who create and
sell their applications.  I for one do not do that.  I am paid a salary by
my company to produce applications for my co-workers so this is not even my
intellectual property in the first place.  Not everyone who uses an MDE is
doing so to "keep people from stealing their code".

Your feeling (if I'm reading it correctly) is that your customer paid for
the app so it is theirs to do with as they see fit even if that means
screwing it up.  My feeling is that some of my co-workers are ignorant boobs
that have no freakin business mucking around in the applications that they
use to do their jobs especially since there is a good chance that this will
cause unnecessary work for my department.

You make the comment that your users are paying you for your apps.  This
means you have no cases where someone is paying you for an app that is then
going to be used by staff who are in no way entitled to poke around and
break things?  All of them are used by the guy writing the check?

--
Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
Email (as appropriate) to...
RBrandt   at   Hunter   dot   com

I don't know any ignorant-boob users. The users I know are almost all
brighter than the job they are doing. I resist classifying them based
on the rules or conditions under which they work. I would say that,
almost universally, they know what needs to be done, and how it needs
to be done and they groan when the constraints or inefficiencies of
the system prevent it from being done.

I've never contracted directly with a firm where there is a "guy".
Typically I get signed purchase orders for my applications. I send
invoices to accounts payable. I don't think the hand that is paying
knows anything at all about what it's paying for, or cares. The
invoice matches a p-o, ergo it's to be paid.
Everyone seems happy if the users are happy. I try my best to make the
users happy, but not always the bosses.
.

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