filePro and Vista

[Walter Vaughan]

Fairlight wrote:

> Are you trying to say that Vista abandoned the license model and you own
> it?  If not, I'm not getting your point.

My point is that m$ can turn off XP 24 months and 1 day after Vista's release, 
and there is nothing you an do *legally* to stop them. M$ shareholders have no 
reason to continue to allow you to use their software, and no assistance will 
come from the government since it'll be well known how dangerous XP boxes are on 
the general internet. I just got done reading an article that 9 out of 10 emails 
are now spam coming from XP boxes...
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/27/uk.spam.reut/
so no government judge or official will side with anyone who still wants XP in 
2009. Who knows in 2 years after the next crowd takes office... jail time for 
people run XP?

Where filePro works in all this... uh you can't run just move fpODBC-5.0.13 to a 
Vista harddrive until a utility is developed to change the HD serial number. 
Right now volumeid.exe does not work on Vista, so you'll have to get a new 
activation code. No a problem as long as the server is active at fpTech and 
keeps giving out new keys...
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Walter