>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).
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>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?

Just like what I recently heard a guy at the car rental said to a customer: "You don't really need to read that contract, it actually has only one sentence: we are always right, and you are always wrong".