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I have repeatedly read the QB license. As I understand it, 
Qtable and the law, Qtable does not violate the QB license. 
Qtable does not modify QB code on your hard drive. It acts 
like many memory resident programs, in that it looks to see 
when something happens & takes action. In this case it looks 
to see when QB checks the validity of its tax tables. Then 
it sends QB a messages saying the tables are OK.

The QB license says Intuit can only be sued in California. 
If it wants to sue Qtable it will probably have to go to
the country where Qtable does business. Intuit is unlikely 
to get a friendly reception, which may affect decisions on 
questions like whether Qtable modifies the QB code only in 
the memory of your computer.

The Qtable developer had 2 websites in case they could not 
use one. Through no fault of Intuit, the first of them died.
http://irg.narod.ru/ works every time I try it. If you try
a different site you are looking at an old post. 

On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 03:50:47 GMT, "David Ray" <david@timecalc.com>
wrote:

>I haven't read the license agreement, and don't plan to.
>
>HOWEVER, almost all software licenses include a clause the prohibits
>modification of the object or executable code in any way.  If this provision
>is contained in the QB license agreement, it would apparently outlaw Qtable.
>
>Of course, as Mike said, these creeps are trying to copyright public domain
>information in the first place, so I certainly think users are justified in
>violating the copyright in any way they wish to.  I'm on record in this
>forum as promoting the free exchange of QB tax table updates.
>
>Somehow, I don't think this small violation of the QB license agreement
>would bother me.
>
>"Mike Block - Tax Cut C.P.A." <mblockNO_SPAM@blocktax.com> wrote in message
>news:3aa4a53b.25948783@news.mindspring.com...
>> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:35:45 -0800, "T Bennett"
>> <todd_bennett@polyconcepts.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Just that question: Is qtable legal?
>>
>> I am biased towards all QB add-ons. Fortunately, QB is now
>> biased that way as well. By 2002 you will have many new QB
>> add-ons, including payroll programs.
>>
>> QB takes public domain tax tables, adds minimal programming
>> and claims they produce a copyrighted tax table. I am not an
>> attorney, but I understand it is fundamental copyright law that you
>> cannot copyright public domain items this way.
>>
>> Qtable does not provide a tax table. It simply tells QB that
>> the properly licensed tax table, which QB has, is current. As a
>> CPA I know there is no record of a government agency ever
>> bothering a small business using obsolete tax tables or forms.
>> There also is no damage, in that employees get credit for tax
>> actually withheld, not amounts what should have been withheld.
>>
>> Of course, Qtable lets you keep using the table after QB would
>> like it to expire. A significant number of QB users are not happy
>> with expiring tables. Intuit has not contacted Qtable's developer
>> to object to it. If they tried to kill Qtable they might publicize it,
>> creating more sales. They might not win on the public domain
>> issue. It also would be costly, as Qtable does not do business
>> in the U.S. and has had multiple web sites. Therefore, Qtable
>> may or may not be legal, but it may not matter.
>>
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