is it legal

[Richard Kreiss]

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> Subject: Re: is it legal
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> 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.

Mark, this works for supporting a cloud based database program not a
development program.  In fact, all I would have running in the cloud would
be .tok processing tables. not  .prc tables.

If one is talking development, then one would definitely have to change the
data directories location.  That would require a lot more disk space as well
as user licenses.

Richard

> 
> 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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