Keep FoxPro Alive!

[Ioannis Stefis]

This page is opened by an idea from the Visual FoxPro Spanish community,
this page is opened for doing a campaign asking to Microsoft to continue
with the Visual FoxPro development, release the full source code as Open
Source or make an agreement with a 3rd party for continued development of
future versions of VFP.

MasFoxPro campaign: http://www.masfoxpro.com

Martin Brtna

[Smokey Grindle]

I wish VFP would die already, was a FP dev for years. It was ok for its
time, now there are MUCH better solutions out there that do the same work in
half the time...

"Ioannis Stefis" <st*****@otenet.grwrote in message
news:ej**************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

This page is opened by an idea from the Visual FoxPro Spanish community,
this page is opened for doing a campaign asking to Microsoft to continue
with the Visual FoxPro development, release the full source code as Open
Source or make an agreement with a 3rd party for continued development of
future versions of VFP.

MasFoxPro campaign: http://www.masfoxpro.com

Martin Brtna

[aaron.kempf]

chinga tu madre senor


On Mar 30, 12:01 pm, "Ioannis Stefis" <[e-mail]:

This page is opened by an idea from the Visual FoxPro Spanish community,
this page is opened for doing a campaign asking to Microsoft to continue
with the Visual FoxPro development, release the full source code as Open
Source or make an agreement with a 3rd party for continued development of
future versions of VFP.

MasFoxPro campaign:http://www.masfoxpro.com

Martin Brtna

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Smokey Grindle" <no****@dontspamme.comschrieb:

I wish VFP would die already, was a FP dev for years. It was ok for its
time, now there are MUCH better solutions out there that do the same work
in half the time...

That's only one side of the medal. On the other side people invested a lot
of money in VFP code and those investments are about to be disposed if no
viable migration path is provided.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Herfried,

Don't they have economic classes in that university of you?

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <no************@planet.nlschrieb:

Don't they have economic classes in that university of you?

Don't you have any counter-arguments at hand?

If there are two vendors selling programming
languages/environments/libraries A and B and A provides new versions which
are incompatible to their predecessor, it's often better (sure, there are
many other factors to be considered) to use B if it stays compatible and
provides approximately the same feature set.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Herfried,

Maybe it are our roots.

When you see the history of the country I am living in, it is always
selling, selling (liberal) etc. done in centuries.

When you see Austria (the empire) it is always a little bit preservation
(conservative).

Strange is of course when you see that, that by instance the major car
engine developments is from Austria and one of our major industries is still
flowers.

However when you see how flowers are made nowadays, than it surely has
nothing to do with even 20 years ago.

Maybe Microsoft would just raise the price to an economic level to make it
worthfull. The problem with software is that you get that price later, so
there is a risc in that, if the users are for that price still that
convertative.

Cor

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.atschreef in bericht
news:%2***************@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <no************@planet.nlschrieb:

>Don't they have economic classes in that university of you?

Don't you have any counter-arguments at hand?

If there are two vendors selling programming
languages/environments/libraries A and B and A provides new versions which
are incompatible to their predecessor, it's often better (sure, there are
many other factors to be considered) to use B if it stays compatible and
provides approximately the same feature set.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[aaron.kempf]

look jackass

Microsoft killed VB6- and it was the most popular langauge OF ALL TIME
AND IT STILL IS!
Microsoft doesn't give a damn about developers; I highly recccomend
that you guys move to Dreamweaver and use PHP / mySql

Hope that helps
On Mar 30, 4:07 pm, "Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-
[e-mail]:

"Smokey Grindle" <[e-mail]:

I wish VFP would die already, was a FP dev for years. It was ok for its
time, now there are MUCH better solutions out there that do the same work
in half the time...

That's only one side of the medal. On the other side people invested a lot
of money in VFP code and those investments are about to be disposed if no
viable migration path is provided.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[aaron.kempf]

Cor;

I had no idea you were from Austria.

I visited Austria back in 1982; it was the most beautiful place!

-Aaron
On Mar 31, 8:06 am, "Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Herfried,

Maybe it are our roots.

When you see the history of the country I am living in, it is always
selling, selling (liberal) etc. done in centuries.

When you see Austria (the empire) it is always a little bit preservation
(conservative).

Strange is of course when you see that, that by instance the major car
engine developments is from Austria and one of our major industries is still
flowers.

However when you see how flowers are made nowadays, than it surely has
nothing to do with even 20 years ago.

Maybe Microsoft would just raise the price to an economic level to make it
worthfull. The problem with software is that you get that price later, so
there is a risc in that, if the users are for that price still that
convertative.

Cor

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <[e-mail] in berichtnews:%2***************@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl ...

"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <[e-mail]:

Don't they have economic classes in that university of you?

Don't you have any counter-arguments at hand?

If there are two vendors selling programming
languages/environments/libraries A and B and A provides new versions which
are incompatible to their predecessor, it's often better (sure, there are
many other factors to be considered) to use B if it stays compatible and
provides approximately the same feature set.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>- Hide quoted text -

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