IMO, yes, they apply in the US. But there are so many legal issues in different countries that it may be different in the UK.

A software license grants you certain rights to use something owned by another person. In effect, you are renting the software. Just because they stopped producing it doesn't invalidate the license.

>Hi All,
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>Not asking this just to sound alkward but for a product is discontinued (say DOS, Win 3.11, Fox 2.6 etc) if someone has an authentic copy would it's licence agreement still be legally binding?
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>I think some aspects shouldn't be binding at all.
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>I going round in circles with OWC purely because the licencing on the product is so vague, there so many variations subject to interpretation. I have deployed the in a fox client app and some aspects of it don't behave the way they would in the ideal hosted server-side env. The product has officially deprecated, I just wanted an independent (again free) general opinion from here please?
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>The may issue is that if a client doesn't have a licenced office xp or office 2003, some interactive features should be turned off. It is this turning the off and forcing the pivottable to be in ViewOnlyMode that will siply ot play ball.
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>Regards