On Oct 6, 2017, at 4:37 PM, Paul Hemans <[email protected]> wrote:
> Being open source guarantees that it can be forked and that we don't end up > in the dead end that VFP became. But there are other options for strongly > typed JS available. It is just that being associated with MS means that it > has stronger support, whereas other open source projects can simply dry up. That certainly helps, but what is more important is having the copyright to the code owned by an independent foundation. Python is owned by the Python Software Foundation. OpenStack is owned by the OpenStack Foundation. Kubernetes is owned by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. What that means is that the code is not for sale. No corporation can buy the code and bury it, as Microsoft did with FoxPro. -- Ed Leafe --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/signed text/plain (text body -- kept) application/pgp-signature --- _______________________________________________ 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.
