nowadays many programs are being given as vc++6 source projects with dsw and src tree - now microsoft _has_ _stopped_ selling vs6. If I get a copy from some other place is it then considered piracy? beause nobody sells VS 6 any more - if it is piracy then I will have to switch dev cpp or mingw studio which are freeware

thanks in advance
SM

why don't you ask this question at the microsoft newsgroups, rather than coming to a book publisher?