On Tuesday 12 April 2005 15:49, Erle Pereira wrote:

Nagarjuna G. wrote:

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Does this application support Export of data to any other standards? What freedom users have? Are the users locked in? etc.

Asked my aunt to check with the accounts department to verify if there is a way to export data /use the data with anything else.

The answer was a firm "NO".

Afaik you could export in csv format. I think it was 6.0. Also Peutronics targets the CA community with free and highily discounted offers.Which forces everybody else to use tally. I had purchased tally in 95 and had a big spat with them about their requirement of installing OS2. I wanted it to work on windows 95 (jeez the idiocity - but then hindsight is a very exacting science). And had them sign a clause that they will give me the windows version free of cost. They did in 97 after threatening them with legal action. Two years or so ago a tally rep calls up and asks me which accounting package i use. Tally i say. He says that they have a special super discount for users of pirated tally. I ask him about legit users. He says sorry no discount. He then wants to know my licence number which ofcourse i refuse to give. Imagine trying to find that stupid dongle (which takes half an hour to crack anyway) in my junk box. He then threatens legal action. I told him i would love nasscom or whoever was their shill to raid me as it would guarantee my happy retirement to hawaii.

Which reminds me of licensing issues discussed a few days back. Turns out that you cannot combine with gpld code anything (data, code, images, logos, anything) whose terms of distribution violate the gpl. So if RH suse whoever includes their logo in a piece of gpld code and then asks you to remove that logo from the code, they are violating the gpl. Which means that you only have to remove logos which are standing alone. Then copy and redistribute to all and sundry.

rgds jtd