>Rick,
>IMHO, as soon as Microsoft announced that they would stop supporting VFP,
>the EULA became irrelavant. I have an application that I sold to many customers.
>If and when I go out of business, I fully expect the customers to decompile or do
>whatever they want with my application.
>Even resell it to other companies.


Your response speaks to your character and/or ignorance, and not the law.

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If a company owning rights to a product goes out of business, the contract agreement is no longer in effect.

Microsoft is still in business.
They still hold the copyright.
The contract agreement between you and Microsoft remains in effect.

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You're witnessing the harm and damaging nature of proprietary software
and business interests. Businesses seek their own interests, for money, and
that's it. You are under Microsoft's dictates in this case because you agreed
to the terms. Hate it. Disobey it. Changes nothing. Microsoft's property, their
rules.

If you want rights to use software, start using and supporting copyleft-protected FLOSS projects.