>>Hi Al,
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>>The below is not addressed to you but to the topic;
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>>Rick’s comments about the EULA are correct imo. His argument is so simple that I wonder why people here are arguing the point.
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>>1) VFP is a Microsoft product.
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>Not so sure. It's not sold, not advertised, not listed.
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>>4) It is not abandon-ware and is still part of the MSDN Professional package offered by MS to this day.
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>You can say the same about Windows 7. Is it offered for sale anywhere? It's past its official lifetime, you can't buy a machine with it anymore. And yes it's also part of MSDN package. So it's kind of being bogarted by M$, they aren't using it but won't pass to anyone else either. Unless part of the big package.
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>Even back in 1995, when there was some M$ event in Budapest, I asked the staff at the stand about Fox, and they didn't know anything about it. Was it a M$ product then?

Yes, it is listed and sold as part of MSDN Pro. Yes, it is a MS product, they own it. Windows 7? Try and decompile, rebrand, and sell it as your own product and see who owns it ... :)