>>>>The C0000005 error in VFP 6.0 has caused us to rethink portions of our contract. If we tell our customers that they must install IE 4.0 or DCOM, or our product won't work, what are the legal implications of this stance? Are there licensing fees involved with DCOM /IE4?
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>>>IE4 is free.
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>>And what if the customer refuses to install IE4 or the company already has a non-IE browser that it's standardized on?
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>I am fairly sure that DCOM98 is installable separate from IE (there are others on Ut that can confirm or deny this). If this is the case, then I can't see any problems. Win98 ships with it, and NT SP3 installs it. Luckily I haven't yet had to deal with this with my clients.

Just to confirm, DCOM can be installed independent of IE without a problem. The redistribution of DCOM98 has never been clarified by MS, but they have confirmed that DCOM95.EXE for version 1.2 of DCOM, which will update Win95, is redistributable. Win98 comes with DCOM installed by default; NT at SP3 or higher has the DCOM components as well.