[AccessD] Hacking MDE (was Creating a demo Access app?)

I've got two products which I send out as mdes.  And I worry about the 
product being knocked off, especially in China where we are beginning to 
make some sales with the manufacturing system.

For both of them the primary intellectual value is in the code - The 
Sleep Advisor's diagnostic engine is about 7000 lines and the decision 
tree on the input side, which guides which questions to ask is about 
half that. 

The manufacturing system like any system could be knocked off pretty 
much by copying the design and features of the forms and reports.  No 
magic there.  The MRP calculation and cost-roll up program have some 
tricks in them. 

Nevertheless, it's not rocket science, and I suppose someone could 
duplicate the whole thing.

But if a product can be duplicated pretty much by looking at the 
outside, I wonder what the real threat is here?  I'm probably missing 
something.

Rocky


Bryan Carbonnell wrote:
> On 2/24/06, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software <bchacc at san.rr.com> wrote:
>   
>> But does it decompile the code?
>>     
>
> Not acording to the page.
>
> "*You cannot alter or gain access to the original VBA code - you must
> use Macros instead."
>
> --
> Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com
> Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well
> preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out,
> shouting "What a great ride!"
>   

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Beach Access Software
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