Michel,

Waiting about two weeks and hearing nothing seems to be the modern way to say 'no, sorry'.

People/companies have a lot of trouble actually saying those words these days.

As I have said before, I am sure that the Universal Thread is WIDELY recognized already - hell, I even saw it mentioned in a place which rarely mentions *any* outside interest - the MS VFP Owner's Area!

Cheers,
Jim N

>After being told that there was a way to make our application participate in the VFP Excellence Awards contest, 4 days later I discovered another thing which was not correct.
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>The workaround was to make our application participate in the contest by using one of the external resources that was involved in the development to represent the application. However, if you look closer in the "release.doc" file, which is part of the set of files we need to download, you will see that there is a mention stating "I represent and warrant that my company owns the rights to the solution named in the Profile."
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>As per our discussion, when I was told it was ok to do this workaround, the point "...owns the rights to the solution..." is conflicting here as the person, who will represent the solution, is not the owner.
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>2 situations:
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>1. If what was told to me as a confirmation is true, this statement has to be removed or changed
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>2. If what was told to me as a confirmation is not true, Houston, we have a problem
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>The reason I am creating this email almost 2 weeks after I discovered this is because I had to restart my research again in order to obtain a response on this. I didn't want to post something before I was receiving an answer. However, after having send emails and left messages, no one from Microsoft has responded so far.
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>I am beginning to get some weird feelings about this contest. Even if I found a workaround to participate, I have to say that, at this point, I am really not sure if I want to continue to move things around in order to participate.
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>Many reasons have forced me to change my mind about this contest. That statement as well as many others we discussed so far are difficult to understand. One of those reason is the search of getting information about this contest related to the fact that is it extremly difficult to talk to someone who know something about this contest. So far, the stats are showing that I was able to speak with someone who knew something about this contest only once after having left tons of emails and voice mails. Now, as for this new situation regarding that statement, after almost 2 weeks, I can't get anything again.
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>If someone has heard something about this "ownership" thing, let me know.
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>Thanks.