Virg. If you don't care about Foxpro and just want to make a statement, why not do it with open source instead instead of wasting time and money with M$?
Oh because you are on a cause/mission and not in a business. Is this all to fix the State of CA's issue? Somehow I don't think you are going to get through all of the political fallout that project opened up. On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Virgil Bierschwale <[email protected]>wrote: > thanks for that. > A wealth of information there. > > I don't really care one way or the other as to the future of foxpro. > > my interest lies in beating microsoft with a tool that they consider > inferior by using employees that they consider inferior. > > Perhaps this video will show you what I can't explain? > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?**feature=player_embedded&v=**OeoBWzIRuic<http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OeoBWzIRuic> > > For those wanting to dig deeper, there are additional videos and stories > on this page > > http://keepamericaatwork.com/**archives/210434<http://keepamericaatwork.com/archives/210434> > > -----Original Message----- From: GaryT > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 7:59 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Anybody up for a challenge? > > > On 05/04/13 11:15, Virgil Bierschwale wrote: > >> Since I first became unemployable in 2003, I have listened to all of the >> FoxPro developers talk about Microsoft killing off Visual FoxPro. >> >> Yet I have not seen anybody attempt to buy Visual FoxPro from Microsoft >> to take it into the next decade and further. >> > > Virgil, > > On this page (below), select the sixth tab down from the top, titled > "Visual FoxPro Stack" to read Ken Levy on the future of VFP and the > likelihood of MS selling or sharing the code. > > http://www.foxrockx.com/seite.**htm <http://www.foxrockx.com/seite.htm> > > If you don't know Ken, there will be many people here who can tell the > story in more detail than I ever could. > > GaryT > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAJidMYJxo8Gvf4dUjOkh=tgah8v07snqfpzudnvroh9v-dg...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
