Yes these threads are worthwhile. We can probably thank Ken Levy the change between the 8 and 9 EULAs because, IIRC, he did bring that particular EULA up with MS attorneys. Granted that was mostly in the "Whil and Linux" context, but tht "prior version" issue was also hot at that time.

As you can also see, Ken did post a reply elsewhere on this thread though not in regards to the "workaround" issue. But we can see he has at least noticed one of them.

>Remember when VFP8 came out and we all had that long discussion about the clause in the EULA that required, if you bought an upgrade to VFP8, you to delete the previous version from your system? Well, guess what clause has been dramatically changed to make it quite clear that you may now keep previous versions (and no time limit like the 'downgrade' clause used to have).
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>Maybe these threads really are worthwhile.