You are right!! As a matter of fact the .Net CLR is part of an update to XP Home and is probably a part of Severice Pack l of XP professional. SP1 was several hundred megabytes, so a another five or ten megabytes would be a drop in the bucket.


>>Roger,
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>>>If you mean that people that program for Linux regularly but never used VFP will suddenly start using VFP on Linux I doubt it. Many people in the Linux community have an automatic gag reflex against anything with the Microsoft name on it. They'll stay away from it just because it's from MS. Read some of the threads on slashdot about the EULA controversy and you'll see what I mean.
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>>However, with the press that this Linux/VFP flap is getting in the Linux world, they just might see VFP on Linux as a "David vs Goliath" thing and support it.
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>I hope they do and win the fight. I think anyone supporting the MS position may want to look at the listings on dice.com for VFP positions and re-evaluate. If the original intention of the EULA regarding the runtime was intended to tie VFP to windows, why not package the VFP DLLs with Windows and save us all the trouble of installing apps? Then they could simply say the VFP runtime is part of Windows and cannot be used anywhere else. It seems to me this is a knee jerk after thought on MS's part.