>Uh, well, maybe?
>Unless you resell the foxpro executable, I doubt there is a problem. In any event, how is MS to know unless you tell it?

Uh, well, wrongo James.... And with regard to the second sentence above, I hope we do not cross paths in business. Lets just say this does not reflect to well on your character..... I'll leave it at that....

>If the MS license requires that the foxpro executable remain unaltered, I doubt it's enforceable (if only on public policy grounds -- since modifying your own executable does not harm MS in any way), not to mention that if its broken and MS does not fix it, you have every right to fix it yourself. If MS actually did bring an action in this regard, the resulting public relations disaster would bring far more damage to MS that it could hope to repair by preventing customers from fixing their problems with MS products.
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We are talking about the ESL file - not EXE's you create. And no, you don't have the right to fix it yourself. Whether MS brings action against somebody or not isn't the issue. If your point had merit, could'nt you then hack the Excel EXE and sell it has James Excel Version 1.0?? See how easy it is to have that point go down in flames???? Its an issue of where you draw the line. Here is another good case. Folks that owned a video store in the Mid-West cut out the 11 seconds of the movie Titanic in which there was nudity. The movie sued them - and won a restraining order. Yes, the folks were still selling the movie - for the same price. What the did however, was alter the product. You see - even with a video - you don't really own the video. You really just purchase the right to view the video. Notice when you buy a video, you cannot charge money to view it. Certainly, if you really owned it - you could do whatever you wanted. Once again, I think I have made my point here.

>I have heard from several folks at MS that it is NOT going to revise 2.x in any way, so I strongly doubt the rumours that the remaining problems in 2.6 are going to be fixed by MS. Obviously, then, they will have to be fixed by others since they certainly need to be fixed.
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I'll rely on a quote from Jim Booth here... Those who know don't talk. Those who talk - don't know. That said, I am keeping my mouth shut on this.