No one can bring any substantial evidence of a prejudice; and any civil case requires you can prove à prejudice.

The reasons you enumerate are far too hypothetical IMO


>>There’s no IP case without a prejudice; MS can claim none.
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>That's not true, Theirry. Patents and copyrighted material are bought up each day and then shelved so no one can use the material and therefore compete with another product. It is their in-the-court / as-a-company legal right as the IP holder.
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>MS can claim prejudice because they are the copyright holder of the content, and they made the choice to abandon their software for strategic purposes (to require people to buy SQL Server, or switch to Access or something else).
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>By extending the life of VFP9, they can claim that it hurt their business with regards to Access sales, or SQL Server sales, or whatever other goals they had in mind when they dropped such a powerful tool in favor of their .NET-based platforms and future.