>...legal ructions in the US are to be avoided.

You are close. The real statement is: illegal actions regarding other people's IP are to be avoided. Their choices with what they do with their IP are to be respected and honored.

It's why new products are needed which are not so encumbered, to replace the encumbered ones.

It's time to grow up, Jack. You can't let evil, greedy corporations with contrary goals rule your life. You have to step up, do the hard work to actually change the major things for the betterment of all, including future generations, not looking just toward this week's payroll. You have to use your skills to trult help people.

Visual FreePro could've been 3+ years done by now had you and others stepped up and helped me finish it. Instead, you left me to do the hard work alone while you went off searching for bucks.

The years go by and such pursuits might put food on the table, but the cost to mankind is enormous, and very hurtful.

I hope you learn that lesson, Jack. You're missing it today.