Steve,

>How would they publicize this? A press release? It wouldn't exactly make the front page of the paper :)

Once MS made a clear press release I'm quite sure it would have rumbled through the trade press, online communities, etc.
It's apparent that this has been the clause in .NET related stuff since the start (i.e. it's current release). Even though that's my idea of a fine place to start a new precedent some publicity of the fact would only have been helpful.

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>Apparently the intent of the EULA has not changed, it was just clarified. The previous EULA did appear to allow a user to use both versions concurrently. And when VFP7 came out, there was continuous encouragement to UPGRADE to VFP7, and I believe there was also information MS folks saying that VFP7 and prior versions work fine on the same machine, as long as they are installed in different folders. I think some of the folks at MS didn't understand the previous EULA.

< s >. Frankly, though, I feel that I understand it - I can read it unambiguously and live by it in good conscience.


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>>My objection remains that this should have been publicized by MS when they adopted this DIFFERENT strategy whenever that was.