>>You claim "the law is clear". Exactly how does that apply to Chen's product?
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>Chen is violating Microsoft's wishes for their product. He's violating the notification measures they've put into the software when it's installed stating that there is an EULA to follow. Chen chose "I Accept" to bypass that screen and agreed to the terms. On that basis alone, he is violating the contract he established between himself / his company and Microsoft.
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>There may be relaxations at work in the Chinese government which allow such EULAs to be ignored or bypassed in full or in part, but that doesn't change the nature of one half of the parties involved (Microsoft). They spent money and built a product and determined they'd release it in the manner they did. Visual FoxPro 9 is powerful. It's the most powerful single platform I've ever seen for general business data processing. Nothing else even comes close in full capability. It's a masterpiece of design and the implementation is amazing.
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>What Chen has done is violate those terms he agreed to. He did so expressly knowing Microsoft's wishes, and he doesn't care. He's continued to hack into the project, decompiling the binary into the assembly representation he's shown us. He has added symbols to what are otherwise binary representations, mnemonics for opcodes, and he's done it with the purpose of altering it by injecting new traits and abilities which were not given to us by Microsoft, nor by any Service Packs or hot fixes.
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>That is Chen's business what he does with it.
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>For each of us who have countries which honor the business agreements the U.S. companies establish in their EULAs, we have a different responsibility than Chen does by his country's potential relaxations. We are obligated to abide by the terms of the EULA because it is law in the U.S., and it would also be law in those other nations which honor Microsoft's EULA.
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>For those who are in such countries, we cannot receive Chen's products, use them, install them, or benefit from them, apart from aspects like being inspired by his technical genius, his creativity, his resourcefulness, his determination in following through with this product. Such traits are inspiring and even sometimes awe inspiring. He has a special place in the annals of technical prowess, and such skills are to be respected in and of themselves. But to take hold of his illegal work, and embrace it, is wrong legally, it's wrong morally, and it's wrong ethically.
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>All men and women of honor are duty-bound to the truth, the law, and to their own conscience and personal honor, to abide by the terms Microsoft established in their EULA. It is the limitation imposed upon us for doing business with a company like Microsoft who determines to treat the people of this world in this way.
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>The fact that what Microsoft is doing is harming people is not the issue here. It is the fact that what they're doing is legal, and because of that we are obligated to follow, respect, and obey their requirements. Our alternative is to not use their product, or use their product in the meantime while we step up and create our own. That has been my personal goal with Visual FreePro, to use VFP9 until I get VJr completed, at which time I'll have a nearly 100% compatible replacement for my existing VFP9 code, plus a host of new abilities added on as well.
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>In any event, the law is clear. Microsoft has spoken on the terms of their EULA and its unambiguous. We who are under the scope of that law are obligated by every thing that is right, true, and proper, to obey them in those details, and that includes incorporating, embracing, utilizing, or supporting, changes made along the lines of those by Chen, no matter the source (Chen or others).

You are a miserable person. You have no knowledge on the subject and how this applies to china and choose to attack him.
Disgusting.