Jim;

I can see it now. Someone uses a Mac or Linux enabled computer and uses a Browser, which activates an application created with VFP. Microsoft sues the ISP, application developer and user. They take everyone to court and it takes ten years to settle the case. Microsoft uses .000001% of its earnings to prosecute the case and everyone else is driven to bankruptcy.

Does Microsoft say what it means or mean what is says?

Tom


>My April MSDN shipment arrived today and in it was a new EULA.
>In reading it I noticed some qualifications on distribution that limits such to operation on Windows platforms only.
>
>So I went back and read the VFP8 license and this is what I found (bolding is mine):
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>3. DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS AND OTHER LICENSE RIGHTS AND LIMITATIONS. If you choose to exercise your rights under Section 2, any redistribution by you is subject to your compliance with Section 3.1; some of the Redistributable Code has additional limited use rights described in Section 3.2.
>3.1 General Distribution Requirements.
>(a) If you choose to redistribute Sample Code, or Redistributable Code (collectively, the “Redistributables”) as described in Section 2, you agree: (i) except as otherwise noted in Section 2.1 (Sample Code), to distribute the Redistributables only in object code form and in conjunction with and as a part of a software application product developed by you that adds significant and primary functionality to the Redistributables (“Licensee Software”); (ii) that the Redistributables only operate in conjunction with Microsoft Windows platforms; (iii) that if the...
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>Does this mean that running under Linux is not permitted?