>>>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.
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>>Your response speaks to your character and/or ignorance, and not the law.
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>might be allowed in other jurisdictions. Normally disallowed hacking is allowed in unsupported products in Germany for instance to work around bugs.
It's exactly the same here in Norway. As soon as a company stops supporting a product, the owners of this product are allowed to do absolutely everything with it. This also includes any kind of reverse engineering. The only exception I know of, is that patents must be respected.