Jorge, neat! However, I still wonder what MS thinks of this all. None of them (you, foxteam members) have reacted so far in this thread. Maybe they/you feel it's not within their/your jurisdiction, but they/you could forward this to an MS marketing manager?!
>About that third file, I have a setup for the runtime libraries that includes an 8 Kb executable that does nothing but show a messagebox saying the setup completed successfully, I suppose that covers the part of distributing it with an application.
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>> The third contains the runtime files only and is for people who
>> downloaded the second one and only then discovered that they missed the runtime files. That _download_ is also useful if some service pack makes it necessary to update the user's runtime files. You doubt the legal aspect of that third file. Personally, I think if it's downloadable on the same webpage as the other two, than there won't be a real problem. Anyway, I might decide to create only variants 1 and 2. Wonder what MS thinks of this...
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