Hey all, FWIW, while I think all this conspiracy stuff is just that, I do have to point out that the US military has specific requirements which make no sense to me. One of them states that if a software (or many other) product is specified in a contract, it cannot be changed for any reason without some tedious process being followed.
I have a client that is a major defense contractor and they occasionally call me in to help with some of their apps that were written in VFP. Not only can they not move to a new app, they can't even have me re-write it in something else even if the new app did the exact same thing with the exact same interface. Even worse, when they found out that an in house developed tool was being used by 2 different project teams, they required that a totally separate set of source code be kept for each project team and changes made for one team could NOT be applied to the other project teams source code. And if the other project team needed the same feature, it had to be written again using that teams source code. So yeah, I could actually see there being someone in the government pressuring MS to not obsolete VFP. But do I really think it happened? It sounds too intelligent for me to believe. Fletcher Fletcher Johnson [email protected] LinkedIn.com/in/FletcherJohnson beknown.com/FletcherJohnson twitter.com/fletcherJ strava.com/athletes/fletcherjohnson 408-946-0960 - work 408-781-2345 - cell -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Man-wai Chang Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 4:48 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: M$ giving more support to dbf? On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:01 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-09-16 08:31, Man-wai Chang wrote: > > Actually I'd wager the US Govt--if anything--had a hand in keeping it > from behind totally taken off the table LONG ago. You may recall that > several speculated that the govt had LOTS of Foxpro stuff and they > didn't want M$ to drop all support and/or do anything to prevent the > legacy stuff from working. (DR-DOS anyone?) You got an insider in US Government that is dealing with all Foxpro projects? :) -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 (Linux kernel 2.6.39.3) /( _ )\ http://sites.google.com/site/changmw ^ ^ May the Force and farces be with you! [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/[email protected] ** 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.
