Eric,

>>I understand that theft of software is particularly bad overseas. Unless and >until people reach a point where they do not want to steal - they will steal.
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>You can buy any software in Bangkok for $1.50. VFP7 costs what the average Thai developer makes in one month. People overseas don't view it as stealing. They view it as necessary.

Regardless, it is still theft. No amount of moralizing or rationalizing will make it anything else.

Now... Should companies like Microsoft sell VFP for $1.50 and get the $ instead? How to do that and make $ I don't know. It would be a great idea but I don't see how it would work.

Without going too far into this out of respect for the 'house rules' the real problem here is nothing more than human greed. Now, when you can find a way to persuade all humans to choose the non-greed path I'll buy in. I know how to change the human heart but not for those who don't want to change, but that's a subject people don't want to discuss. Ergo, people want to be greedy and the problem persists.

Let me illustrate: Not to pick on you but why don't you donate all of your next two month's salary to purchase some copies of VFP and give them away to some needy developers in Bangkok. I rest my case. <g>