Urgent help needed: Licensing snafu following server crash

[John Esak]

> Even if there was a way for me to self-generate a temporary working
> license
> or if the license went into a grace period mode automatically to get
> through
> situations like that, I still can't allow myself to depend on something
> that
> will occasionally stop working and requires someone else to fix. Two

filePro's license manager *does* have a fail-over backup provision.

> except hope I don't absolutely need filepro anymore by that time. Since
> that
> would be a huge undertaking (we've all heard the 5 million dollar failed
> fp
> oracle migration lawsuit story), I had better start now and work hard at
> it as much as possible. 

Unfortunately, no one can explain why you feel and think the way you do.
Your words don't say anything about why, and believe me, no one cares. What
they always do say is how brilliant and great you are that you and Aljex
were able to find ways to run programs that don't cost anything. Good work.

It is filePro that put Aljex into business, period. It is filePro that is
*keeping* it there no matter what stupid bullsh*t you want to spew. Who the
hell do you think you're kidding? FilePro and FacetWin from FacetCorp... are
what put Aljex where it is today... wherever that is. To hear you talk, it
was you and your new hacking. Sure... what a joke.

> For every one of me who speaks up like this, how many do you suppose are
> thinking and doing the same thing quietly? Hint, facetwin and vsifax and
> sco
> and doublevision never heard a complaint like this from me. Like most

Hint: That is because you didn't want to pay for what their products are
worth anymore. Good one, so companies that provide really good products and
service to you don't deserve anyone's business any more?  They don't deserve
any feedback, huh? You would be lying if you try to tell people that the
support folks at FacetCorp never helped you learn what the hell you were
doing. You would be lying through your teeth. Without any question, their
product and support is without blemish. They did nothing but help Aljex...
and *you* get to the point where you could dump them. Good one. I guess by
this you're saying Aljex wouldn't care if their customers treated you the
same way. Let me see. On this filePro list, why don't I put up a list of all
the companies that provide the same service Aljex does (or better) for less
money. Aljex sucks for charging what they do, right? What nerve Aljex has,
expecting clients to pay such high $$$ for a product that can be gotten
elsewhere so cheaply and *without* those pesky licensing agreements
attached.

BackupEDGE has kept Aljex's data safe in the same way. Again they deserve no
credit for your brilliance? I suppose you've never upgraded a server without
relying on them either, huh? More bull, more shading of the truth. Oh but
then, I forgot, you've learned everything you know without anyone's help.
You are really too much. Aljex is certainly lucky to have you hacking out
free software for them.

> products and they protected themselves to death. Granted, you're in a

Okay, so I can now tell everyone that Aljex doesn't protect their package
and there is no licensing fee, or business agreement required to use your
stuff. Great, I'll send the hackers your way. You should get along well
them. You have the same mentality.

> several orders of magnitude more difficult to replace a database engine
> and
> programming language. But that just means it takes longer, not that it's
> not
> possible or that the same incentives and logic don't apply.

So, have you mailed all this to Howie and Sue. They better sharpen up their
*other* database skills, huh? When exactly will you be firing them? This
I've got to see. Do me and all of us a favor Brian, send us all a note the
day your brilliance cobbles together "White's HylaPro" to take filePro's
place. I'll tell you what, the day Aljex stops using filePro. If it is any
time within the next year let's say. I will publicly retract that I think
you are full of crap. Until then, you keep proving it with just about every
self-serving useless thing you write.

John Esak