Re: D3--importing accounts when they forgot to SAVE with the (A option


"Tony Gravagno" <g6q3x9lu53001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Simon is correct. That was a tongue-in-cheek remark. For the last
> year I've seen non-MV business application software being touted in
> magazines as Open Source with this model:
> - For a fee starting at $15000 the end-user gets the entire
> application complete with source.
> - The software is under license for a single server and cannot be
> distributed.
> - All changes made by the end-user to their copy of the source must go
> back to the vendor and become the property of the vendor.
> - For-fee customization is of course available.
>
> It seems this is the same model that's been used by most MV VARs for
> about 25 years but without the restriction that all mods must go back
> to the vendor.

IIRC, that was the original Pick implementors agreement. While I was with
CDI, doing the Series/1 port of Open Architecture, we paid a fee, got
complete source, had to send back any changes/upgrades we did which then
belonged to Pick (if they wanted it; most often they didn't). But for a
$1M, we got to distribute it.

Mark


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