All in the interpretation. Would it depend on one's reasons? If you use the SQL Server backend because you see the VFP tables as limiting, then they've got you. But I suppose if you can convince the lawyers that you're using vfp with sql server because you think it's just nifty to use ODBC or ADO in your apps, then it might be ok. The whole thing is a pile of < choose your own noun here >.

One day the MS lawyers will publish a EULA that says exactly what it intends, and we'll all keel over with strokes.

>>Never mind 'jumping through hoops'. I assume that a lot of the apps written will be illegal. If you attach VFP9 to MSSQL in order to reap the benefits of a true dbms, and to lose the 2 gig limitation in VFP, I guess you'd be violating the EULA. So much for all the hype about using vfp with Sql 2000 etc.
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>Well I don't think that's considered a technical limitation, since one of the things that VFP is able to do is talk to other backends via ODBC.
>I *think* what they did was toss that in there to try to keep people from running VFP on something other that Windows. In other words - no VFP on top of Windows Emulators - which I think is kinda stupid. Didn't MS just get busted for being a Monopoly? Was this whole court battle a waste of time because I dont see any differences - if anything Micro$oft is bundling MORE stuff and restricting usage even more!
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>>>>Ok now THIS has been slipped into the EULA for VFP9.
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>>>>"The software is engineered to allow you to use it in certain ways. You must comply with these technical limitations. For more information about them, see the software documentation. You may not ... work around technical limitations in the software..."
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>>>>What? Can't work around the technical limitations in the software? Are the Micro$oft lawyers smokin crack now or something? What the heck does THAT mean I can't do now?
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>>>Victor;
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>>>There goes the fun of programming! I take that clause to mean that we cannot jump through hoops and apply bandages to make anything work using VFP 9.0. No workarounds allowed! :)
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>>>Tom