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No axe to grind, here, eh?[ Parent ] (none / 0) (#3)
by TedRoche on Thu May 01, 2003 at 10:13:31 AM PDT

No, I bought a tool from Fox Software many years ago that I could deploy on DOS, Windows, Mac and UNIX, and with it I have made a successful living for a dozen years. Now, I'd like to find out if I can use it on a platform other than Windows, and I find Microsoft has slip-streamed new requirements into the licenses that prevent me from doing that. That's a pretty shabby way to treat their customers. So, how about paying for a license to redistribute on another platform, since FoxPro won't be subsidized by the OS? I'd be willing to consider a reasonable offer. At this point, clients have indicated their willingness to deploy the entire IDE for the power of VFP on Linux, at $649 SRP per box. There may be an opportunity for Microsoft to make some money in these troubled times.

I am not interested in building an open source tool to duplicate VFP's power - it is a very large undertaking and not the type of development I usually do. However, I am certainly looking at tools in that arena - LAMP is rich with possibilities. I would have been pleased to see Microsoft in that venue, just as I am pleased they wrote MS Office for the Mac, Front Page Extensions for UNIX, and BASIC for my Commodore 64.

As for the alternative perspective, Ken Levy has been quoted in several of the articles, hasn't he? Is there a third angle to the story? Please enlighten us.


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