>I'd like to know where you get "long standing distaste for the company and how it treats you" out of my posts here or anywhere else.

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This change in the VFP8 EULA (I don't care what MS may call it, and I don't care that it may have been there since day 1 in their .NET stuff) is devious at the least and shows GREED to excess.
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At a time when they are fighting open source and Linux and other companies whose products appear to offer substantial benefit in the .NET environment, I would have expect that MS would be taking steps to BUILD it communities, not deceive them.

MS has chosen deception over innovation as its way to future revenue. I see that as a good sign that they will begin a decline to averageness real soon.

Whatever, dude.

All I wanted to know is why you spend energy complaining about Microsoft's treament of their customers while moving away from Microsoft appears to be a more and more viable option.

If your general attitude towards Microsoft is favorable then I guess I've completely misjudged your position, which is why I asked the question I asked.