>>>>>On the legal side, EULA is a contract submitted by each party's national, and international law. A lawyer would probably argue that, whenever the editor no longer services the product, users de facto have the right to tamper it.
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>>>>>On the practical side, no one at microsoft has ever cared, and cares about VFP being decompiled; it's no longer strategic, if it ever was.
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>>>>I've contacted Microsoft's legal department to get their official position on VFPA's legality for use in VFP9 Professional by U.S. entities (citizens, corporations).
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>>>What a miserable thing to do! You had no obligation to do this, and you've chosen to try to create trouble.
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>>I'm not sure what life you live, or what values you possess, but I had forgotten about Chen's work until it was brought back up on this board. When I saw someone doing something illegal, I was under direct obligation to call it out. I did not do it to create trouble, but to rectify a wrong being perpetrated on countless people, a sort of carrot leading them each astray likewise as it's very tempting to grab hold of the shiny thing before your eyes even if it's wrong to do so, than it is to go the more difficult path of maintaining truth and integrity and moving toward a real resolution to the issue you face.
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>Sometimes, what's legal is not what's right. My father removed "white" and "colored" signs from restrooms in M.D. Anderson Hospital when he worked there in the late 1950's. He did what was right. Seems like if you'd been there and heard about it, you would have reported him.

Those policies were contrary to the fundamental truth I spoke about. It's like abortion today, which is legal... does not make it right.

You snipped the important parts of my reply. You should go back and read them.

>Shame on you.
>Tamar

You misunderstand me significantly, Tamar. You cast things upon me which are not mine, nor even considerations of mine. My goals are consistently grounded in the root of that which relates to truth, justice, fairness, morality, equity, and other such traits. They are not political, merely of personal opinion, or other like traits. They are founded upon deep study, considered over time, and relate back to precepts dating long before I came into this world. And as I live my life I am constantly making course adjustments toward those precepts as they are revealed to me through much consideration.