is it legal

[Fairlight]

You were proposing keeping someone from accessing another qualifier in
their code...how?  And with opendir/readdir in filePro now, it's trivial to
discover the available qualifiers.

m->

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 03:42:46PM -0400, Richard Kreiss thus spoke:
> > 
> > I see a caveat in terms of security.  You'd have to go to great lengths to
> protect
> > the clients from stepping over each other.  I'm guessing separate PFDIR
> > locations for each customer.  But that's not the whole story, since if you
> allow
> > shell access, they'd still be able to get into anyone else's code/data
> because
> > they all need to be filepro to do anything useful.
> 
> An easier way to approach this would be to use qualified files and control
> access to the qualifier by set PFQUAL=.  This saves a lot of space as the
> programming is the same for all users with only the data files (Key, data
> and indexes) different.
> 
> One should still provide front-end login requirements.
> 
> Richard Kreiss
> 
> > 
> > You'd have to provide a web front-end and enforce the segregation with
> > credentials.
> > 
> > Sounds like a headache to maintain, but whatever floats your boat.
> > 
> > Sounds like you need to check for "lease" terms in the EULA, given the
> > suggested business model.
> > 
> > mark->
> > 
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 03:33:54PM -0400, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list
> thus
> > spoke:
> > > After the thread about hosting filePro on the cloud, this comes to
> > > mind
> > >
> > > (a) Have a cloud server
> > > (b) Install 200 user run time license
> > > (c) Host filePro applications where
> > > (c1) Developer can upload tok/prc tables
> > > (c2) have users log on via client pointing to myapp.fileProruntime.com
> > > (c3) Provided added value benefits to ease data rendering on line
> > > (d) Charge based on fixed rate or whatever business possibilities of
> > > cost+
> > >
> > > I cannot see why this practice would not be legal since licenses are
> > > purchased as needed and ownership of the license is not transferred to
> > > registered accounts but 'granted access'.
> > >
> > > How many would sign up?
> > >
> > >
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