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Why ACTA Sounds Good To Me

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ACTA aka Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is getting a lot of press recently, especially from the likes of TechDirt and Broadband News. ACTA is the most recent lightning rod for those who are critical of the music and entertainment industry intellectual property concerns.  ACTA is a good thing for the very reasons that the anti-RIAA and anti-MPAA crowd completely overlook – that artists who are not distributed through these publishing venues are being ripped off every day and the DMCA falls short in providing any sort of protection. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Lynn Fredricks

November 4th, 2009 at 9:28 am

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REALbasic, Valentina and 2010

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So what is REALbasic support going to be like for Valentina in 2010? Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Lynn Fredricks

November 2nd, 2009 at 9:31 am

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Valentina DB and Windows 7

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When is no news a feature? When its Valentina DB and Windows 7. Our ongoing tests so far with Valentina DB and Windows 7 have revealed no incompatibilities so far. But that’s just us though – no matter what we do, Paradigma Software’s compliance can’t fix it if your development environment itself has a problem with Windows 7.

Well – there is one fix, and that is to change your development environment. The more you rely either on very portable, non-development specific SQL or utilize the cross-platform, cross-environment native Valentina API, the easier it is to move your front end to another development environment.

Written by Lynn Fredricks

November 2nd, 2009 at 8:49 am