Turn Omnis system read only?

[Andy Hilton]

To be honest it more probably depends on whether or not you ever issued any kind of ‘licence’ for your software !!
I do (I am sure I copied it from somewhere else originally !!)
And I know I feel a whole lot happier at least having something solid to fall back on……

My deal is that users buy a licence in perpetuity (for ever) to be able to use my software - but that without a current support payment they simply get no additional help from me…….but once they have ‘paid’ for a license, they are entitled to carry on using it for as long as they wish (and as long as it works)

Others do it differently !!!!!

Andy

On Aug 29, 2014, at 6:13 PM, Gavin Foster <omnislist at dataweaver.com> wrote:

> I guess that in general legal principle, the data is theirs but the software isn’t.
> 
> So you can export all their data into flat files and remove the software. Then they can query the flat files however they wish!
> 
> Or you can remove the software and:
> a) charge them to use it temporarily when they need to or
> b) charge for your time to query the data when they need it.
> 
> i’m not saying that’s how you would want to approach it but it’s probably the legal starting point.
> 
> Rgds
> Gav
> 
> On 29 Aug 2014, at 21:11, Geir Fjærli <omnis at sunshinedata.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Jock and Moh.
>> 
>> I’ll mention the reports only route to my client. Not sure if that is sufficient for the end user. (How much they can really demand when they are canceling their agreement is not for me to say, I haven’t read it.)
>> 
>> Geir :)
>> 
>> 29. aug. 2014 kl. 17:15 skrev Jock Philip (jock at visionchips.com) <jock at visionchips.com>:
>> 
>>> Hi Geir
>>> 
>>> I used to have a read only library but all insert/edit/delete calls went through a central method and I just disabled those.  Looks like that doesn't help you though.
>>> 
>>> Jock
>>> 
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>>> Subject: Turn Omnis system read only?
>>> 
>>> This is good old Omnis 7 (classic) on Windows, using native datafiles.
>>> 
>>> A client has a customer that want to stop paying maintenance on their app, to go to another system. They do however want the old system available for reference. But as they are no longer paying, they should be restricted from actively using the system.
>>> 
>>> So the question is: Is there anything that can be done (without changing code) to stop them from updating the data file? I guess anything you set can be unset if you have admin privileges.
>>> 
>>> Now I may be able to stop them in a centrally called procedure, luckily one is called for most edits and inserts. Then I need to stop some other activities too.
>>> 
>>> Anyone done something like this on a native Omnis app?
>>> 
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