Looking for help with fox and sco
David J. MacKenzie
djm at eng.umd.edu
Wed May 9 13:06:50 AEST 1990
>>I am using SCO's foxbase software. About a year ago I started asking
>>SCO if/when they would put a switch in it to allow users to turn off
>>the copyright screen every time the prog. gets launched (this after
> Surely you realize that you violate copyright by removing the copyright
> notice? This is basic to copyright law - to get copyright protection,
> you have to display a copyright message.
> Display of the copyright message is required both to protect
> our copyrights and those of Fox Software.
I'm not an expert on computer copyright law, but I note that GNU emacs
displays a copyright message on startup by default, but also has a
variable, 'inhibit-startup-message', that you can set in your .emacs
file to suppress the copyright message on startup. gdb has a '-quiet'
option to do the same thing. As far as I know, these options do not
jeopardize the copyright of those programs. What would be wrong with
putting a similar feature in FoxBASE?
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David J. MacKenzie <djm at eng.umd.edu> <djm at ai.mit.edu>
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