< joking>We could always try... I'm sure the MS legal department would be more than happy to point out whether we've made a terrible mistake or not. If the letter has Brad Smith's signature on it, then we can rest assured that we've misinterpreted the EULA pretty badly.< /joking>

>Hi Ken,
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>> But the VFP runtime files are not free nor are not freely available in general. The VFP runtime files are only available to licensed users of VFP to distribute their VFP applications with.
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>I appreciate you taking the time to explain issues like these. Your commitment to community feedback does more to earn my hard earned money and trust than the zillions MS spends on marketing. I mean that as a complement to you vs. a criticism of MS marketing.
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>On the topic above, can you explain how the VFP runtime files are different than VB runtime files or the .NET CLR "runtime" files from a legal perspective?
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>Would Microsoft have an issue if the VFP community banded together to make the distribution of basic (per redist.txt) VFP runtime files easier ... along the lines of what Craig Boyd suggested earlier in this thread?
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>Thank you,
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>Malcolm