>>>The fact is, Windows DOES subsidize Fox.

>>>I would not go so far as to say that Windows supports the existence of Fox - at least not directly.

>>Are you contradicting yourself?

>Not at all. Windows subsidizes the royalty free runtimes - which is one piece in the bigger puzzle. Instead of saying Fox - which is a blanket statement - I should have qualified to say the Fox royalty-free runtimes.

At some point in the past Fox Applications could also run on UNIX and Apple Mac's - was there some kind of subsidy from those OS vendors?