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>Well it's uncharted waters - its going to be mostly theory anyway.
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>Actually, this is not entirely true. Some of the doctrines in copyright law -as it pertains to technology and software - are 25-30 years old. And of course, the basic copyright law doctrines are 100+ years old.
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>It is a mis-conception to think this is all unchartered territory.
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>The analysis by the way, is a confluence of economics, copyright, and anti-trust law.

Well if you examine what's there that's 25 to 30 years old...then isn't their ELUA's trying to create an unlawful monopoly by saying VFP is only allowed to run on windows? I mean isn't this the same type of the thing that MS just got busted for? If this is true...then they've misused the copyright laws right?