Someone (anonomous?) suggested that a VFP application that someone might want to deliver to a hypothetical customer might send it to a "bundler" in one of the 175 or so countries who are enlightened enough to not allow this kind of monopolistic behavior (like England).

I'm afraid in practice, you'd still have to tell your customer that they need the run-times and where to move them within Linux (although, I guess that could be "compartmentalized too) and then if M$ decides to go after anyone who markets a vfp app that anyone uses on Linux, they'll just find a friendly judge to serve you with a restraining order and you've gotta hire the lawyers to fight it. The deck is definitely stacked against the little guy. Sorta blows a hole in Libertarian theory, don't it?

Cheers;