I have VFP8 from the Universal MSDN membership. I am testing our VFP7 apps in VFP8 daily. I have already run into a few 'gotchas' that I had to change immediately using VFP7 to open the forms and make the changes because the forms would not even open in development mode in VFP8. I plan on continuing to use VFP7 only until I can release a version in VFP8 safely. Once that is accomplished, I no longer plan on using VFP7 to develop apps. Now if I purchased an upgrade license for VFP8 I would expect to be able to do the same. I have to agree that the EULA 'reads' that what i am doing would be illegal, but I do not think that is the intent and it would be a major turnaround for VFP licensing. You cannot stop completely using the previous version unless the newer version supports EVERYTHING verbatim that the previous version did and that is not the case. So the EULA makes no sense because developers could potentially find their existing VFP7 apps 'dead in the water' and forever stuck in VFP7 if they cannot open them up in VFP7 to modify them to work in the newer VFP8 version legally. Hopefully I was clear on this. In summary, I do not think MSFT would intentionally create this type of problem for its developers so I choose to believe (stupid of me probably) that it is okay.

Tracy


>You have to make your own decisions, as it sounds like you already have, and I'll make mine.
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>>But Craig, are you seriously going to accept a newsgroup posting from someone who does not make policy at MS (Even if it's Ken) over the wording of the EULA?
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>>I think that's very dangerous.
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>>If the MS policy makers and lawyers take it into their heads to really get on this, I don't believe that "But Ken Levy said it would be ok" is going to be enough.
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>>Don't get me wrong. I doubt that MS would make a big fuss over this, but the EULA is what it is, and I think that my contravening it based on only that doubt is unacceptable.
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>>For me to buy and install the product, I think they'll have to change that paragraph to say what they mean - if it doesn't already.
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>>Alan
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