Re: Q: Legal status of SW that Informix does not longer sell or support

Mike Jagdis <mike@roan.co.uk> wrote: >Andrej Falout said > >>Does Informix have the right to force me not to make copies of >>software they wont sell? > >Yes. Only the copyright owner has the right to make copies - unless >you have a license from them that explicitly allows you this privilege. >Informix' copyright on what you have will expire sometime in the >middle of the 21st century, if that helps :-). > ' Mike Mike, I know the law. But, do you thin that anyone has the right to make somebody's business dependable on there product, after 3 years stop selling it and than ask them to pay again for it, and for all additional expenses, like code rewrite, new hardware, and so on. This sounds like blackmail to me. What if Informix will stop existing, let's say, they declare bankruptcy? #include<std.disclaimer.h> **************************************************************** * Andrej Falout, RDBMS R&D, Croatia, Europe, afalout@zg.tel.hr * *--------------------------------------------------------------* * If you can read, You can do it ! * ****************************************************************