>>>But for msdn - see here
>>>http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1552798&SiteID=1
>>>and here http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1617290&SiteID=1
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>>"Please do NOT refer to "for-profit" sites - like the Universal Thread - in replies on this forum."... says he on a Microsoft-run forum. Microsoft is obviously a well known non-profit.
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>Now, that, Dragan, is a good one !
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>I recall a (non-technical) course I was on - more than 10 years ago.
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>The person giving the course said: Amazing what Mircosoft has achieved. They sell products and when you have trouble with them, ask your uncle or your neighbour for support ...
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>And so Bill created the newsgroups/forums and saith: let there be both 'for-profit' sites and 'profit' sites ...

And you're right, it's not Andy, it's M$. Later in the same message it says "...what you are doing constitutes "Advertising" - which is specifically banned under the terms of the Microsoft Sponsored Forums. By posting messages in this forum you have agreed to be bound by those terms.", which is exactly the policy of parallel universes (see message #1266307 which passed unnoticed because I posted it on a weekend). Now your desktop, your browser, your anything is fair game and hunting ground for any ads - specially on a new machine, when these ads are served by M$. But if you only mention any piece of other universes, i.e. universes where someone else is making money, all of a sudden that's not kosher, because there's no direct revenue to M$ from that.

Or is it that they'd want the whole VFP community to come into the fold of the mother hen, and don't like us gathering by other corners?