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>A subsidy is nothing more than some sort of financial assistance. Windows - as a platform - subsidizes our efforts to distribute royalty free - VB, VFP, .NET apps, etc. Either directly or indirectly - this is the case.
>This is all royalty free so long as the apps are distributed on the windows platform. This aspect of the EULA is targed specifcally to the re-distributable components. You may look at and conclude that this as something nefarious. Nonetheless - nothing you cite above negates the point that Windows subsidizes royalty-free distrbution.
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>Now - if you want to cite some authority - why not find something in the economics realm to dispute my assertion?
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>< JVP >
There are not financlial assistance, because in reality VB, VFP, .NET apps, etc. sales Windows and Offices. Absent odf that kind of product stop wide distribution of the Linux OS.
In reality sum transferred from Win and Office to Devlopment tools are like advertizing and promotion cost.
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