Re: New license?
Re: New license?
- Subject: Re: New license?
- From: David Teran <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:50:07 +0200
Cliff:
That's my understanding, as well. But before everyone gets too
excited (too
late?) this appears to predate WebObjects 5.3. I'll check if we
need to
change the "Release 4.5.1 or Later" to "Releases 4.5.1 - 5.2.4".
Its not ony a question about getting excited, its a question about:
are we doing illegal stuff (now or in the near future) ?
I guess the answer will be no, but i will ask nevertheless as if its
not possible to get a statement from apple within the next months i
think quite a lot of people have to make the decission if they
continue to use WebObjects and then only on Mac OS X [server] boxes
or drop WebObjects and try to use whatever (currently i would prefer
to convert to a farmer with appletrees and tomatoes when i have to
drop WO).
Is it allowed to deploy WebObjects 5.3 or higher based applications
on other Operating Systems than Mac OS X [server] ? Currently we
still have some WO 5.2 licenses which can be used on Linux and other
things but some companies depend 100% from their WebObjects products
and if Apple is not able to give these companies a statement, then
they will have to make a decission which is quite easy. Mostly its
because of the customers, not because of the developers to deploy on
linux or something like this. In germany its becoming more and more a
KO criteria: if you want to sell server based software (like a WO
App) to the government you must deploy it on Linux or other
OpenSource OS which are available for free. I guess germay is not an
important market but things are changing in the US and elsewhere,
too. Or those companies ignore license and install WO 5.3+ on Linux
and whatever and risk to get undesired mails from Apple's lawyers.
Well, this would be quite easy in UK because a limited is very cheap,
but what a stupid idea: for every project for every customer you are
using an english limited and then, if the lawyer come you say "ups,
sorry, no money left, we're insolvent"
My 2ct: its too early to behave like microsoft where ASP and such
stuff only runs on Windows, maybe Apple can try such things in 5 or
10 years but not with a market share of about 5% and whatever in the
Enterprise IT market.
David
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