>>Oh, I won't be sued, be sure. I guess M$ have better things to do other than to sue my 15 customers in Peru. But I'm very interested in this thread, because I can't see why M$ hasn't put a "You don't have the right to execute VFP Runtime files in other plataform than Windows".
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>You never will see that, IMO. That would be tying VFP to the OS which is why they got into trouble by tying IE to the OS.

Am I missing something? Look at the third point under paragraph 3 (below). They are specifically tying VFP to the OS. Which, by the way, I am convinced is unenforceable. If Microsoft sells you a pair of shoes, they cannot force you to walk ONLY on MS Sidewalks.

There's a lot of garbage in most EULAs that is not enforceable. Another example is the notion that you "cannot reverse engineer, disassemble, etc." Court cases surrounding license disputes have actually proved that to be hogwash.

Guy


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