I been write about 5k source over 10 years, where is my paycheck from
COGNOS?
S/B BIG...
Bruce
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Bruce Toback wrote in message ...
>Richard Gambrell writes:
>
>>Someone could develop a PH emulator, but that would incur all the same
legal
>>challenges.  For conversion to Cobol, at least for quick, I would expect
you
>>would need emulator functions that would amount to the same legal problems
as
>>any other type of emulator.  Quiz and QTP, I would guess, could be
converted
>>much more easily.
>
>Cognos's legal position, explained to me in no uncertain terms, is that
>they own every line of source code ever written in a Powerhouse language.
>So even if some such emulator or converter appeared by magic, Powerhouse
>licensees would still need Cognos's permission to use it -- because even
>though you wrote the code, Cognos owns it.
>
>-- Bruce
>
>
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