>>It's been shown many times that M$ can't be trusted.
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>Yeah, what was that memory mgt company, or drive compression company, or whatever that sued them and won.

Stacker?

> You never show them your technology - they will rip it off and think their lawyers can keep you at bay.

Among other things. Let's not forget the manipulation of VFP community, behind-your-back updates, forcing Digital Research out of business (ended up bought by Novell), and the case I remember from 1986 when there was a known bug in M$ CP/M Cobol runtimes, that their distributor knew of but wasn't allowed to disclose (until we pressed them with some hard evidence - then they gave us alternate libraries). To name a few, but there's a lot more.

>Now there's the fly in the ointment. I may very well be nuts. You never really know, after all.

I'll supply the bolts, then ;).